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by: dfs019 May 17, 2012 12:55 PM PDT

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by dfs019 - 5/17/12 12:55 PM

Hey I have an windows partition and a linux partition on my hd. My windows partition is quickly running out of room while I still have plenty of space on the linux one. Is there and easy, free, and safe way to re-size the partitions to increase the size windows partition?


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I have to go with no.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 5/17/12 1:06 PM

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That is, while there are partition resizing applications, some folk skip backups and discover that while it works most of the time, there is that one time...

In the past I've used GPARTED to do this. Free, only a little challenging.
Bob


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Re: resizing

by Kees_B Moderator - 5/17/12 1:08 PM

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You need a partition editor that understands Linux partition.

Try GPARTED. Download the .iso and burn it to CD to boot from.

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by cancelc - 5/17/12 11:53 PM

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why "You need a partition editor that understands Linux partition. "


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by Kees_B Moderator - 5/18/12 1:46 AM

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I never tried, but I'm afraid the Windows partition editor (Disk Management that is included in Windows) isn't able to resize a Linux partition. It has a different filesystem (not NTFS or FAT32). Partitioning involves making a file system on the new partition. Resizing involves editing the file system. That's why a Linux based partition editor, like GPARTED, might be better.
If you've got another favorite partition manager and that handles Linux partitions, just use that.

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Because you have a Linux partition.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 5/18/12 11:19 AM

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It's that simple.


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