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how increase partition size in ubuntu

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  • Started 3 months ago by gaurang
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gaurang
Posts: 28

hie all,

i am very new to linux os and ubuntu, i just installed it very first time and i find linux is cool..
bt now i m facing a problem of disk space.
i have setup dual boot ( vista / ubuntu ) , and at the time when i created partition for linux i thought , i will not keep this system for long time and also i will not install much in it so i kept partition size less. but now problem is that i just fall in love with linux so i want to keep it for ever , bt again my disk space is limiting me from installing stuffs.
i want to know that how can i increase partition size of ubuntu , problem is i also have another OS (vista) and i don't want to lose any data from it too , so i guess it must be little tricky to increase size.
can i resize my windows partition and then just add it to ubuntu ? if so , then what is the procedure ?
please help me out .....
and yah.. i m very green in ubuntu and linux so please please make it little descriptive .....

Posted 3 months ago #
 
bamsan
bamsan
Posts: 80

hi, gaurang. Just in case you didn't know, the program to do partition related stuff is called gparted. Usually it's located under menu system/administration/partition editor

If you want to alter your linux partition, then you need to boot from the CD and run gparted from the CD. The graphical interface of gparted is quite ok. I believe you can manage it with no problems. However, before you do something with your HDD, be sure to backup first.

One last thing, NEVER give label to your harddisk using gparted. Label in linux and dos/windows are totally different.

Posted 3 months ago #
 

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