Need help with gparted & my drives

[davewickett]

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need help i have ubuntu & vista on my c drive i gave ubuntu something like 13 gb & i want to add some more space to it from vista but dont know witch 1 is witch & i have my d drive witch is hp recovery & want to add that 1.66 gb to ubuntu that is not being used i have a hp dv5 with 3 gb ram & 250 gb hd ubuntu is quick now & vista is starting to get slow how much more space can i give to ubuntu all i want vista for is so if something went wrong with ubuntu ill have vista to get on the net & try to fix it i have downloaded gparted live iso ready if anyone could help me with this please thanks
dave:ks:ks:ks

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6e8499e1

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 27154 218114473+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 29182 30401 9797632 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 27155 29181 16281877+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 28856 29159 2441848+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 29160 29181 176683+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 27155 28777 13036684+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 28778 28855 626503+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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[merlinus]

You might find some useful info here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1219270

[davewickett]

Ok thanks alot mate really helped me out thanks ill have a good read over it in a bit this will help so many other people out aswell ""good job"":D:D:D

[davewickett]

you might find some useful info here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1219270
ok the only thing i dont understand is why do i have 2 swap & 2 ubuntu partitions

[merlinus]

Dunno, but looks like you can delete sda5 and sda6 and add the space to sda7. IIRC the step-by-step guide will help you to do this.

If not, post back.

[raymondh]

ok the only thing i dont understand is why do i have 2 swap & 2 ubuntu partitions

Did you install Ubuntu twice? As merlin says, you look at removing 5 and 6.

[davewickett]

I installed ubuntu from a ubuntu cd where it goes through it with you & i just done side by side & gave ubuntu 13gb
WITH WHAT I HAVE PUT UP CAN YOU NOT TELL ME WHAT I HAVE TO DO WITH WITCH ONES PLEASE I THINK I MIGHT FIND IT A BIT HARD AS I HAVE TO BOOT FROM ISO ASWELL

[merlinus]

What about using gparted live:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

You can burn it to a cd or usb flashdrive. It is a very small download.

[davewickett]

yes i do have it but just dont want to mess anything up thats all

[merlinus]

It is a bit complicated, but here are the steps.

Boot from gparted. Delete sda5 and sda6. Click on sda8 and select swapoff.

Then you can grow sda7 into the freed-up space, leaving room for a swap partition of about 1.5G.

There are screenshots at the gparted website to help, as well as at the link I gave in an earlier post.

As always, back up important data first.

[davewickett]

Thanks alot mate thats wicked anyway ill be ok with that i think ill give it a go & post what happend anyway so thanks for all your help
dave

[merlinus]

Best of luck, and let us know how it turns out.

[davewickett]

Thanks there is one thing on sda5 there is 2.33gb and 2.33gb used so if i delete that one is there something important on that,that i will need.you said to delete sda5 and 6 and then add them 2 sda7 but how do i add them plz? Mate thanks for all the help you have given me and i will let you no how i get on thanks again mate.

[merlinus]

Before deleting anything, make sure you have backed up important data.

As for resizing, there are menus, and arrows that you can move to grow a partition, but the freed-up space has to be touching it.

If you follow my steps, this will work.

[davewickett]

Ok ill write all your steps out & have a go mate thanks post results 2morrow

[merlinus]

Sounds good. If at any time in the process you are uncertain, and unwilling to risk creating problems, post back before doing anything further.

And once again, be sure to back up important data first!