Partition resizing on Ubuntu

[Nelladel]

Good evening to you all.

First time posting, so I'll try to be as specific as possible with my query:

Some months ago I decided to give a chance to this 'Linux thing'. However, being uncertain of the usefulness and friendliness of it all, I decided to keep my Windows 7 partition untouched and just make a 30 Gb partition to "try out" Linux.

As it turns out, it's been some 2 months since I last booted Windows :) and was now wondering if there's a way to "steal" some space from that W7 partition and add it to my Ubuntu one without messing up files.

Some kind of major defragmentation, leaving an empty part of the disk which I could "attach" to my Ubuntu partition.

I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS version, if that's any help...


Thank you very much in advanced.


TL;DR: MORE SPACE FOR LINUX, LESS SPACE FOR WINDOWS, PLEASE.

[psusi]

Boot the live cd and open gparted. It will do what you want.

[Nelladel]

Thank you very much for the quick response!

I shall try that and see if it works.

[Rebelli0us]

In theory you can do that but there is risk of pooching one or both of the OSes. It's easier to just get a 2nd disk for Ubu, hard disks are very inexpensive these days.