Re: [SLUG] Of partitions and re-sizing

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Feb 04 2007 - 19:19:54 EST

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Chuck Hast wrote:

> On 2/4/07, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Chuck Hast wrote:
>>
>> > On 2/4/07, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>> >> On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Chuck Hast wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I resized a NTFS partition on my laptop. The HD is a 50G HD, I had
>> >> > it split 27G for XP and 23G for Linux. I resized the NTFS partition
>> >> > to 17G and now want to use the free space for Linux, but I can not
>> >> > access it.
>> >>
>> >> Did you create a new partition for it, or did you resize an existing
>> >> partition (or both)?
>> >>
>> > I resized the NTFS partition, leaving 9G of free space.
>>
>> That free space is on the disk only, not in any partition by default.
>> You need to resize the Linux partition which you want to be bigger, or
>> add a new partition in the free space.
>>
> That is the funny part, I can not resize any of the other partitions,
> indeed it appears that I have moved my self into a corner....

Well you said something earlier about moving a partition. Can you move them
around until you _can_ resize an appropriate one? Else, make a new
partition in the free space and mount it as /usr/local or wherever it would
do the most good. 

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