Is it possible to resize this?

Hello all.

When i created my linux partition, i thought 10gb would be enough. However, since the day i installed linux, i havent ever used windows anymore. Now i think it would be great to get some extra GBs and it's been hammering my head. In that case, i would like to take 10gb from NTFS and put them in the reiserfs partition.



I'm not sure it's possible, my intuition says it would only be possible it it was at the right side of the reiserfs partition.

Sorry for the portuguese, btw.

 

sure you can. use something like Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 in Windows. You can increase the Linux partition using Acronis by "increasing the size".

 

If you can get an Ubuntu Live CD GParted will run off of that. I'd recommend (Being you have 512mb swap is 256ram?) as soon as you get in the environment hit the terminal and "# swapon /dev/hda3" Then it should be really easy. You may have to "Repair" windows because the bootloader dosnt like the size of NTFS changing. beyond that it should be point and shoot.

 

Yeah it has 256ram... surviving, isnt it?

About the livecd i was pretty sure i would have to use it. I would use it either way, as it isnt booted on the partitions im resizing, sounds obvious.

That 'swapon' would be something to set the swap partition? in that case, is it really needed? it's already swapping on there (cuz its the only swap avaliable, btw). You mean it will be better to re-set it after i resize hda2?
Thanks for the reply.

About Acronis, i'd like to keep it on free, and now i think gparted might do it. Thanks for the reply anyway.

 

gparted will also do the same, just remember that the more steps you take doing the resize the more that gparted performs...
so step one, boot to live disc, resize ntfs, then expand rieser to suit..
10gb is ok for / but for /home, need heaps if you are linux only...
as your only using / i would suggest about 30gb...
swap being larger than memory is smarter than swap being smaller...
But as you will find out later, 1gb ram or more helps you if you dont wish to use swap...
anyway, the main thing has been said, gparted will do the job...
OH, and one thing to remember, always backup before altering partitions...

 

yeh i have everything important backuped aswell

ill do it now and post/edit this with the results.

thanks for everyone

[off]well im using this small ram/hd thing cuz well, my last notebook has been stolen few weeks ago. now i'm "saving" to a new one, and even it might take a while, i'm not willing to upgade this. plus pc stuff is very expensive in Brazil[/off]

 

Well, i tried with GParted and uh..

It was a disaster

Grub got all messed up, first wasn't loading. Then i booted livecd and googled something, then soon i was able to load the bootscreen again. Windows, (of course, due to my hd organization) booted up easily but Linux crashed while loading.
My formatting steps were: free 15gb from hda1; copy hda2 to the blank space (hda4 was created); destroy hda2; add space from hda2 to hda4. I think the whole mess was because the linux partition got called hda2. I wasn't able to "rename" it anywhere.

Anyway, i decided to format it again and "enjoy" it to try a different distro. Now (already) running Kubuntu 7.10 for some little more standard (was running a local Brazillian distro). No data loss anyway, it was fun Thanks all. Oh, and sorry for the doubleposting.

 

firstly, deleting partitions is not good, even renaming is bad but resizing is not renaming....shouldnt have deleted the partition...
but if you had run rescue and reinstalled the bootloader, you could have logged in with the live cd and changed grub(lilo) to find the kernel in the new location...
when using gparted, only resize when playing with partitions that contain data...