kurtosis4
June 8th, 2009, 04:39 PM
Hi All,
I'm new to Ubuntu but have managed to set up a dual boot laptop (w/ Vista).
I found that my Ubuntu install was reserving too much space and decided to re-allocate some of that space for shared data (music, pics, videos) between the two OS's.
My plan was to merge the exisiting DATA partition with the new unallocated space. The DATA partition is already read/write by both OS's.
I shrank the ubuntu partition (using GPartEd) and all seemed to go well.
Now I find that I cannot merge the unallocated space to the DATA partition in Vista (threads outside of this forum suggested using M$ for that part).
Should I be trying to 'point' /dev/sda4 to the same place as /dev/sda5 before reclaiming the unallocated space in Vista? How would I do this?
Any advice/help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!.....even if its to do a complete Ubuntu reinstall ;)
fdisk and GPartEd screenshots are attached....
I'm new to Ubuntu but have managed to set up a dual boot laptop (w/ Vista).
I found that my Ubuntu install was reserving too much space and decided to re-allocate some of that space for shared data (music, pics, videos) between the two OS's.
My plan was to merge the exisiting DATA partition with the new unallocated space. The DATA partition is already read/write by both OS's.
I shrank the ubuntu partition (using GPartEd) and all seemed to go well.
Now I find that I cannot merge the unallocated space to the DATA partition in Vista (threads outside of this forum suggested using M$ for that part).
Should I be trying to 'point' /dev/sda4 to the same place as /dev/sda5 before reclaiming the unallocated space in Vista? How would I do this?
Any advice/help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!.....even if its to do a complete Ubuntu reinstall ;)
fdisk and GPartEd screenshots are attached....