14 Dec
2009
14 Dec
'09
8:05 a.m.
Greetings,
My laptop has seen a variety of installs over the past year, and I now
have a fair amount of delegated but unused disk space. Is there a
recommended procedure or program that can re-acquire that space for my
Karmic installation ? I've never repartitioned a disk *after* an
installation, so I'm a bit nervous about the process. Advice is needed
and welcome.
TIA,
dp
14 Dec
14 Dec
8:42 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Greetings,
My laptop has seen a variety of installs over the past year, and I now
have a fair amount of delegated but unused disk space. Is there a
recommended procedure or program that can re-acquire that space for my
Karmic installation ? I've never repartitioned a disk *after* an
installation, so I'm a bit nervous about the process. Advice is needed
and welcome.
I'm quite sure you heard of it, gparted livecd comes
into mind.
To cite the FAQ regarding safety: 'Short answer: Yes, it
is safe :)'.
Well, keep the usual caution and do backup everything.
I never had issues, just used it a few times. Once for
exactly that task - deleting partitions and resizing/
moving existing ones to cover the free space while
keeping all their data.
Usage is graphical and just simple.
best,
d
8:52 a.m.
David Adler wrote:
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Dave Phillips
<dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Or the system rescue cd, with gparted included...
\r
Greetings,
My laptop has seen a variety of installs over the past year, and I now
have a fair amount of delegated but unused disk space. Is there a
recommended procedure or program that can re-acquire that space for my
Karmic installation ? I've never repartitioned a disk *after* an
installation, so I'm a bit nervous about the process. Advice is needed
and welcome.
I'm quite sure you heard of it, gparted livecd comes
into mind.
To cite the FAQ regarding safety: 'Short answer: Yes, it
is safe :)'.
Well, keep the usual caution and do backup everything.
I never had issues, just used it a few times. Once for
exactly that task - deleting partitions and resizing/
moving existing ones to cover the free space while
keeping all their data.
Usage is graphical and just simple.
9:07 a.m.
rosea grammostola schrieb:
David Adler wrote:
Another alternative is to use a knoppix cd with qtparted. I have used it
to re-partition several hard drives over the years without any problems.
Best regards,
Lutz
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Dave Phillips
<dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Or the system rescue cd, with gparted included...
Greetings,
My laptop has seen a variety of installs over the past year, and I now
have a fair amount of delegated but unused disk space. Is there a
recommended procedure or program that can re-acquire that space for my
Karmic installation ? I've never repartitioned a disk *after* an
installation, so I'm a bit nervous about the process. Advice is needed
and welcome.
I'm quite sure you heard of it, gparted livecd comes
into mind.
To cite the FAQ regarding safety: 'Short answer: Yes, it
is safe :)'.
Well, keep the usual caution and do backup everything.
I never had issues, just used it a few times. Once for
exactly that task - deleting partitions and resizing/
moving existing ones to cover the free space while
keeping all their data.
Usage is graphical and just simple.
9:29 a.m.
David Adler schreef:
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Dave Phillips
<dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Or just gparted from within Karmic. Depends a bit on the situation.
m
Greetings,
My laptop has seen a variety of installs over the past year, and I now
have a fair amount of delegated but unused disk space. Is there a
recommended procedure or program that can re-acquire that space for my
Karmic installation ? I've never repartitioned a disk *after* an
installation, so I'm a bit nervous about the process. Advice is needed
and welcome.
I'm quite sure you heard of it, gparted livecd comes
into mind.
To cite the FAQ regarding safety: 'Short answer: Yes, it
is safe :)'.
Well, keep the usual caution and do backup everything.
9:55 a.m.
mik wrote:
David Adler schreef:
Thanks to everyone who replied so far. Gparted looks like what I need.
I assume I should run it from the live CD to avoid problems with mounted
partitions, yes ?
I'll dl the ISO and give it a whirl.
Best,
dp
I'm quite sure you heard of it, gparted
livecd comes
into mind.
To cite the FAQ regarding safety: 'Short answer: Yes, it
is safe :)'.
Well, keep the usual caution and do backup everything.
Or just gparted from within Karmic. Depends a bit on the situation.
11:14 a.m.
2009/12/14 Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com>
mik wrote:
If you run KDE it's in System Settings, or from terminal as root:
partitionmanager
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David Adler schreef:
Thanks to everyone who replied so far. Gparted looks like what I need.
I assume I should run it from the live CD to avoid problems with mounted
partitions, yes ?
I'll dl the ISO and give it a whirl.
I'm quite sure you heard of it, gparted
livecd comes
into mind.
To cite the FAQ regarding safety: 'Short answer: Yes, it
is safe :)'.
Well, keep the usual caution and do backup everything.
Or just gparted from within Karmic. Depends a bit on the situation.
5:28 p.m.
Dave Phillips wrote:
mik wrote:
Yes, Dave, but if you're only pruning and shaping archive partitions
that can be unmounted from your installed working distro, you only need
to run gparted right from there. It will not allow resizing a mounted
partition.
Frank
David Adler schreef:
Thanks to everyone who replied so far. Gparted looks like what I need.
I assume I should run it from the live CD to avoid problems with mounted
partitions, yes ?
I'll dl the ISO and give it a whirl.
Best,
dp
I'm quite sure you heard of it, gparted
livecd comes
into mind.
To cite the FAQ regarding safety: 'Short answer: Yes, it
is safe :)'.
Well, keep the usual caution and do backup everything.
Or just gparted from within Karmic. Depends a bit on the situation.
11:35 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Greetings,
My laptop has seen a variety of installs over the past year, and I now
have a fair amount of delegated but unused disk space. Is there a
recommended procedure or program that can re-acquire that space for my
Karmic installation ? I've never repartitioned a disk *after* an
installation, so I'm a bit nervous about the process. Advice is needed
and welcome.
TIA,
dp
Dave,
Try the gparted live CD. Works fine even on disks with NTFS in my experience.
Granted, it's a bit scary nearly every time I use it, but it works
and it's never apparently hurt my machines. I usually go step by step.
I'll remove or resize down one partition that I'm least interested in
and then I'll reboot every installation and make sure things look
good. Then I'll boot the CD again and do the next step. I prefer to be
silly-paranoid when using it. I go very slow and carefully think about
each step, but as I say I've never had anything go wrong so I'm happy
to recommend it.
Good luck,
Mark
3:39 p.m.
Greetings,
Used the gparted livecd, updated grub, it's all good again.
Thanks again,
dp
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