Resizing partition
 

How do I resize my partition?
I'm newbie and I re-install Edgy trying to have Ubuntu on one partition, another partition for other OS, a swap and finally a bigger one for Home.
Now I just have one 17GB partition and I don't know how to check wath happened to the 43GB left?
Thanks

There are a lot of ways to do it...
 

As with most things Linux, there's more than one way to do this. Probably the easiest way is with QTParted. This is a very nice graphical partition editor available on a number of distributions. If your distro (Ubuntu?) doesn't have it, go get a copy of the ISO image for Snappix, burn it to a disk and you can run QTParted from the Snappix Live CD (this has the decided advantage of not mounting your partitions automatically so you can actually edit them). Very nice program, and very powerful, so please be careful.

If you decide to resort to a command line tool, try parted first, and then cfdisk or fdisk if you have to. fdisk, in particular, can be cantankerous - a wrong move can totally hose your system. Again, please be careful. Steer clear of sfdisk, though: it's more of an expert's tool.

parted is the command line version of QTParted (which is really just a GUI frontend).

cfdisk and fdisk are partitioning utilities - they cannot resize a partition, but can help you create, delete, and view partition tables. Maybe help you find that missing 43 gigs?

I don't have to tell you to back up important stuff before you start this, do I?

Good luck getting things sorted out. A little care and some light reading before you start might save you some headaches later, though. The man page for fdisk is kinda deep, but full of good info.

Later On,
Dave