Redistribute space
Hello,
I have 3 partitions in NTFS which I would like to rearrange. I moved the data off one of the partitions into the other two and created unallocated space from that partition's extra space. Now I can't move the unallocated space from the old partition to any of the new partitions because it seems as if the new ones will not accept more space beyond their original size. Can anyone help me figure out how to expand the other two or am I stuck with three partitions? (I am using the gui for GParted and Im running Linux Mint) Thanks! |
Are these primary or logical partitions? Post the output of:
Code:
sudo fdisk -l |
Hello, sorry I did not realize all the technical aspect of the operation.
Here is my fdisk list Quote:
I suppose that I will have to boot off of the CD because sda8 will change its number. I would also like to know the risks involved sda8 and sda6 for files and functionality. Thanks very much again. Edit: I realize that I will probably have to change the grub, can anyone tell me which files to change exactly. Thanks very much |
As far as I know, you should be able to add sda7 to sda6 since they are contiguous to each other. You are using GParted from within Mint, is that correct? If, so, are these partitions mounted when you try this? You can not partition a disk when the partitions are mounted. To simplify this try a GParted live CD or the Parted Magic live CD:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php http://partedmagic.com/ Personally, I prefer Parted Magic; but GParted live CD is fine. As far as grub is concerned, I assume Mint uses UUIDs to boot partitions in grub and mount them in fstab since that is what Ubuntu uses. The advantage of UUIDs is that if the ordering of your partitions changes (like they will if you eliminate sda7) the UUIDs stay the same, so it *should* have no effect on booting Mint. I assume Mint is sda8. Is that correct? To identify the UUIDs of each partition run: Code:
blkid Code:
[tom@arch ~]$ blkid http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...highlight=fsck Sorry I took so long to get back to you on this. |
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