PureLoneWolf
May 20th, 2009, 07:20 PM
Hi all
I seem to have a fairly unique requirement as far as my searches around the forum can discover.
I intend to move my wubi install to a dedicated partition and ultimately to remove windows. Unfortunately, the space issues on my various drives are limiting that at the moment, so I need to move things around and replace a disk.
The smallest disk I have is a 160gb and, typically, this is where I chose to install my wubi install.
I have windows on /dev/sda1 and the wubi ubuntu on /dev/sdg1
I need to move my wubi install to any other partition (there are a number), which will then allow me to resize /dev/sda1 so that I can LVPM to a dedicated partition.
I presumed that I could edit the windows boot.ini and some grub files to point to the new location (ie /dev/sdh1)
I am happy to lose Windows in the process of all of this, but I really don't want to lose the (360gbs worth) of files on the Windows partition and I (of course) would rather not lose my current Ubuntu setup as it has taken me some time to get it to where I want it etc..
Sorry for the long winded/rambling post, I saw a similar question asked that was responded to with "Use LVPM" and wanted to be clear about my intentions to aviod this.
Is this possible?
Many thanks
I seem to have a fairly unique requirement as far as my searches around the forum can discover.
I intend to move my wubi install to a dedicated partition and ultimately to remove windows. Unfortunately, the space issues on my various drives are limiting that at the moment, so I need to move things around and replace a disk.
The smallest disk I have is a 160gb and, typically, this is where I chose to install my wubi install.
I have windows on /dev/sda1 and the wubi ubuntu on /dev/sdg1
I need to move my wubi install to any other partition (there are a number), which will then allow me to resize /dev/sda1 so that I can LVPM to a dedicated partition.
I presumed that I could edit the windows boot.ini and some grub files to point to the new location (ie /dev/sdh1)
I am happy to lose Windows in the process of all of this, but I really don't want to lose the (360gbs worth) of files on the Windows partition and I (of course) would rather not lose my current Ubuntu setup as it has taken me some time to get it to where I want it etc..
Sorry for the long winded/rambling post, I saw a similar question asked that was responded to with "Use LVPM" and wanted to be clear about my intentions to aviod this.
Is this possible?
Many thanks