partition manager

[alpdo]

i have my 160 gb harddisk installed ;dual boot with win98 and ubuntu ;with ff partitions; 2 gb swap, 10 gb /;10 gb for win98; and rest of the partition for /home; since /home is large enough; im wondering if i could repartition my /home partition....

[Saint Angeles]

sudo apt-get install gparted

[alpdo]

i have tried using gparted but the resize button is disable...and i cannot unmount the parttition

[Saint Angeles]

i have tried using gparted but the resize button is disable...and i cannot unmount the parttition

i think you gotta unmount the partitions first... you might have better luck doing it from the live CD

[indytim]

Get the "Live" version.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php

IndyTim

[alpdo]

is there other program than gparted???

[indytim]

GParted is pretty much regarded as the "gold standard" of partition editing in the Lx environment (works very well on NTFS, FAT32 etc). Is there a problem with using GParted?

IndyTim

[billgoldberg]

i have my 160 gb harddisk installed ;dual boot with win98 and ubuntu ;with ff partitions; 2 gb swap, 10 gb /;10 gb for win98; and rest of the partition for /home; since /home is large enough; im wondering if i could repartition my /home partition....

You can't repartition your /home drive when you are using ubuntu.

You will need to unmount it, but I doubt that is possible when running the OS.

Like someone else said, download the gparted live cd, burn it and boot from it. Then you will be able to it.

I can be wrong, but I think you can also use the ubuntu live cd for it (I believe it comes with gparted).

[alpdo]

okies tanks
ill try

[alpdo]

what is makefs???