Please help my harddisk is 96% full

[hoboy]

Hello gurus please help me, my harddisk is 96% full,I have vista installed , I am using dual booting, the harddisk part where vista is installed has big free place, how can I extended the part of Ubuntu part of the harddisk.
move some free places from vista harddisk to ubuntu ?
Thanks

[chriskin]

i might be too naive, but i do not think you can do something like that without formating

i don't know, let those with more experience answer for sure

[jonom]

You can use a partition editor to resize your partitions.

Gparted is pretty good. There is a LiveCD available for download: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

Don't forget to backup anything important!

[wolfen69]

PartedMagic (http://partedmagic.com/wiki/PartedMagic.php) is also very good.

[avtolle]

Be aware that one adds additional "room" on a linux partition at the end, not the beginning; thus, merely creating a smaller Vista partition will not necessarily give more room to expand the Ubuntu partition. If this is the case, as I fear it may well be, once the Vista partition is resized, to enlarge the Ubuntu partition may well require backing up externally your /home folder and other files, reformatting the empty space plus the existing Ubuntu space, reinstalling Ubuntu into the enlarged partition, and restoring the /home folder. Just be aware this is a real possibility.
http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning for some general information on partitioning, etc.

[CameO73]

Just a reminder: backup any data on your Vista/Ubuntu partitions before resizing them! I've seen resizing gone bad enough times to know this is important advice!

[avtolle]

Just a reminder: backup any data on your Vista/Ubuntu partitions before resizing them! I've seen resizing gone bad enough times to know this is important advice!
+1 on this; also, defrag the heck out of your Vista partition before resizing it.