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higashi
June 13th, 2011, 04:44 PM
I'm dual booting Ubuntu with Windows7. Instructions I've found on how to resize partitions tell me to open gparted and shrink things from there. However, I can't seem to do this because:

-I can't expand the windows partition because i first need to shrink the linux partition
-I can't shrink the linux partition because it is mounted
-I can't unmount the linux partition because it is being used.

So how exactly do I expand my Windows partition?

Quackers
June 13th, 2011, 05:00 PM
You can't change partitions which are mounted. You can use gparted from its live cd or, alternatively, from an Ubuntu live cd/usb desktop. The partitions are then not mounted.