Re: How to edit size of partitions?
The easiest way to use the space that XP was on...
boot from a LiveCD,
run gedit.
make sure the ntfs drive is un-mounted.
tell gedit to format it as ext4 (or whatever Linux fs you like)
re-boot from your hd,
and use the new space as storage...
No need to move, re-size, re-store, re-install grub, "grub-update", etc...
you can even do this from a running system,
as (obviously) Linux does not depend on any NTFS drive.
unless you have it set up to auto-mount it,
in which case, just un-mount it... then proceed.
One thing to realize is that your NTFS partition is the only PRIMARY partition...
your Ubuntu is fully inside an EXTENDED partition.
this makes it a multi-step process to "grow" your Ubuntu into that space...
using it as a separate storage drive is much easier.
Last edited by egalvan; July 25th, 2011 at 05:17 AM.
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