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Old 01-19-2008, 08:42 AM
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Default Re: Need to shrink extended partition and add to NTFS (boot) with Gparted in Win-XP

ahmbrahmasmi@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded Gparted live-cd from sourceforge.net (0.3.4-10) and
> booted on my PC (Sony vaio PCV-RX650). Gparted window came up after I
> ran Forcevideo. I have an 80GB disk with 14.93 GB primary boot
> partition and an extended partition of 59.58 GB for data most of which
> is free.
> I am running WindowsXP Home edition.
>
> Since I am running out of space I wanted to take about 10 GB out of
> the extended partition and allocate it to the NTFS primary partition.
> Is this possible ?
>
> I resized the extended partition to 49.81GB which gave back an
> unallocated 9.77GB in front of it, and I thought this could be
> allocated to the boot-NTFS partition. Since I was not sure I did not
> commit any changes and thought I could get some expert help.
>
> After resizing the partition map looked like this:
> Partition Filesystem Size Used
> Unused Flags
> =========== ========= ======= ======= ======= ======
> /dev/hda1 NTFS 14.93 GiB 14.40 GiB 540.94
> MiB boot
>> /dev/hda2 extended 59.58 GiB -- --
>> lba

> unallocated unallocated 9.77 GiB --
> --
> /dev/hda5 NTFS 49.81 GiB 15.60 GiB 15.60
> GiB
> unallocated unallocated 7.84 MiB --
> --
> unallocated unallocated 15.69 MiB --



I take it that this is Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon or Feisty Fawn you're using from
the file system; in which case try a Linux group.


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