How to resize partitions?

sickofwaiting

I gave my windows partition too little space when I installed linux. I need to double it's space. How do I go about this? Cheers.

Tillotson

Easiest way is to boot up the ubuntu live cd and run gparted.

Back up everything first, don't say you weren't warned.

Johnboy1951

or if like me you don't use that particular flavour you might like to add this to your utilities

http://partedmagic.com/

niallb

Hi,
that's not enough information unfortunately.
Can you log in as root under linux and post up the output of the command
fdisk -l
That'll show what the space next to your windows partition is being used for.
If your linux partition is right afer the windows one, it may be more complicated to resize. You'll need to resize the linux partition first leaving the free space immediately after the windows partition before you can extend the windows filesystem into it.

sKeith

I've used gparted live cd in the past and it worked fine for me. current live cd is 120MB. gparted-live-0.5.2-9.iso

irish_stickman

if you boot up into your linux partition and install gparted you should have no problem resizing partitions

sudo apt-get install gparted