Help with Partioning

umamaheshmunez · 10-16-2008, 10:48 AM

I have got Gutsy Gibbon and my drive partitioning is as follows:-

/ :- 58 GB

/boot :- 104 GB

swap : - 5 GB

After installing Wine, I saw that I can't create a wine folder in /boot. Can anyone help me with my partitioning? I don't want to reinstall Ubuntu although.

mackdav · 10-16-2008, 11:12 AM

I'd bite the bullet and re-install. Typically you only want a small /boot for holding your linux kernels and associated files (ie initrd files if required) -- a couple of GB should be tonnes.

umamaheshmunez · 10-16-2008, 11:14 AM

Isn't there any other way to do the repartitioning without losing the installation?

umamaheshmunez · 10-16-2008, 11:30 AM

There can be some other way c'mon plz help me out!! I have lost a lot of space out there

amani · 10-16-2008, 11:56 AM

Get the latst PartedMagic CD

You can resize and Move partitions.

Resize /boot to about 500MB !

You will get a lot of freespace....make 2 partitions in say JFS and ext3 there.

Swap should be ~3GB in modern situations.

Gutsy uses UUids ...so 'move' may not be required at all.

Make a max of 3 primaries and any number of logical partitions within a extended partition