HOWTO: migrate wubi install to partition

[trailblazerz11]

I'm away from computer right now. I'll post the additional info in an hour.

The only reason I am trying to expand is because Ubuntu keeps spamming me I have 800 mob left..: (
Windows shows my Ubuntu folder has 30gb. I have plenty of space on windows so I unalocated 100gb to create partition to migrate wubi to
I am using gparted from USB can't expand sd3 is my.problem

Thanks for quick responses!!!

[bcbc]

I'm away from computer right now. I'll post the additional info in an hour.

The only reason I am trying to expand is because Ubuntu keeps spamming me I have 800 mob left..: (
Windows shows my Ubuntu folder has 30gb. I have plenty of space on windows so I unalocated 100gb to create partition to migrate wubi to

Okay I missed the unallocated space... my fdisk reading skills need some work obviously. So I'm getting 110GB for /dev/sda2 and 16GB for /dev/sda5 now (sound right?)

So, if you shrunk /dev/sda2 then you need to expand /dev/sda3 to the left to absorb that space, and then you can create the new logical partitions for the migration within that.

I'll wait for the df output though before continuing.

There are alternatives to migration, e.g. moving data from the wubi install to the /host, or increasing the virtual disk size. However, migrating to a dual boot is in my opinion the best option if you are going to be using Ubuntu long term. And since you've already shrunk /dev/sda2 this makes sense to continue.

[trailblazerz11]

I gave you the wrong output earlier. That output was with 48GB unallocated, I further shrunk my Windows 50GB for the total of 100GB i mentioned. But otherwise you were correct. 150GB sd2, ~15GB sda5 and 100GB unallocated.

Here is the updated fdisk

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6292c561

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2          206848   327686143   163739648    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       530766848   594199551    31716352    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4       594199552   625142447    15471448   12  Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda5       530768896   594199551    31715328    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

And df

 Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop0             29G   27G  811M  98% /
udev                  1.9G  4.0K  1.9G   1% /dev
tmpfs                 766M  904K  765M   1% /run
none                  5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none                  1.9G  128K  1.9G   1% /run/shm
/dev/sda2             157G  110G   47G  71% /host

[bcbc]

Okay, so your /host is /dev/sda2. You can run gparted, expand /dev/sda3 to the left to take up that unallocated space. Then create your target ext4 partition for Ubuntu and a swap partition (greater than the size of your RAM for hibernation). If you are going to be sharing data with Windows you might not want to use up all the available space on a single ext4 partition. You will obviously need a minimum of 30GB to migrate, so practically I'dsay 40GB minimum. However, you could probably shuffle some data before migrating if you want to reduce that.

[trailblazerz11]

That's exactly what i thought to do, expand the extension, create ext4 96GB, and a swap 4GB (i wont share files)

But I get an error every time I try to move and expand the extension sda3.

Heres the pictures, I cant upload here because too big. Sorry for the hassle

Current state:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33930055/Pic...216_125030.jpg
Expanding extension:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33930055/Pic...216_125054.jpg
Error message pops and heres the info:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33930055/Pic...216_125133.jpg

[bcbc]

There's a issue with /dev/sda2 (that warning icon). If you click on that what does it say? How did you shrink it (from Windows?) or gparted. Have you booted windows since resizing it if it was from gparted?

[trailblazerz11]

There's a issue with /dev/sda2 (that warning icon). If you click on that what does it say? How did you shrink it (from Windows?) or gparted. Have you booted windows since resizing it if it was from gparted?

I'll boot into gparted and check on the warning icon.
I shrunk from windows using a partition manager program that was already on my computer/
Yes, i have booted several times into windows.

Booting gparted now, that warning is probably the issue..

[trailblazerz11]

heres the warning log.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33930055/IMG...216_132234.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33930055/error.jpg

should i do what it says and go on windows chkdsk /f ?

[bcbc]

I would.

The software you used to resize the partition shouldn't leave it in an inconsistent state. Just note that running chkdsk /f might mean that Windows 'recovers' files to hidden folders \found.000 \found.001 etc. and possibly will remove what it considers as unrecoverable data. You might consider backing up important data. (That may be overcautious, but I tend to err on the side of caution. Odds are if chkdsk would remove a file due to corruption then you couldn't copy it either).

[trailblazerz11]

I ran it to auto to auto fix errors, but didnt "scan for and recover bad sectors"
It did get rid of the warning in Gparted but still the same result when i try to expand extension

EDIT: Did some googling could this be the issue
"From your description I would say that, when you booted the live CD, it used the swap on partition 6 and thus the extended partition was in use, not allowing GParted to do the grow operation."
im using usb buti assume its similar?