which commands can i enter into fdisk to safely add a few mbs of unallocated disk space between partitions without losing any valuable data? when i start fdisk, it says press m for help which lists a series of commands. I don't know which commands to choose.

Fidsk cannot resize partitions, which requires a knowledge of the internal structure of the filesystem that fdisk does not have.

Try using gparted. See http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-572760.html, and http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=173828

As has been mentioned, fdisk cannot do it. More importantly, however, no matter what you use, ALWAYS back up your data on the entire disk preferably but on the two adjacent partitions certainly, before you try to do anything.

See, only fdisk sees my 8 unique partitions. GParted, Partition Magic, Ubiquity only see one giant unallocated space. My MBR is really messed up and is the source of my head ache.

Backing data up before messing with partitions is always the wise thing to do, as moxieman99 points out. However, I have about 170GBs worth of stolen intellectual property. It would take me days to back up all the valuable data onto 4.7GB DVDs which is why I want to be extremely careful with the surgery necessary to get Ubiquity to read all my partitions.

It's times like these I wish I was a developer who could modify the code in GParted myself. I am such a slow learner when it comes even to simple scripting languages...ugh.

Meant to mention safety myself. Changing partitions can be as effective, and very much faster than rm -rf /*. Make sure you know exactly what you want to do. Check each command before you hit the enter key. And backup. Messing with partitions is not safe.

Might it be easier to get another hard disk, backup to that and then repartition?

I can't afford a 200+ GB HD at the moment.

Here is the bug report in case any of you are interested in what I am dealing with here. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ed/+bug/209974

Slackware installs because it can recognize all the partitions, but Ubuntu won't. Slacwkare is boring because it doesn't run compiz-fusion. I miss compiz-fusion.

Slackware runs compiz-fusion just fine, I have it running right now in fact, you just need to do some research to get it working, which is what slackware is all about

I've done my research. I discovered compiz-fusion slackages only with Freerock Gnome installed. And Freerock is fiercely discouraged by the Slackware experts I hang out with. So fuck it. What needs to be written are SlackBuilds to compile either comiz 0.7.4 or master git from source for xfce, not those ugly Gnome wm distributions for Slackware . I don't yet have have the bash scripting skill to do this yet. Do you, AceofSpades19?

I didn't need them, and if you look closely enough, you will find something to get the packages for you(hint, hint), and I don't have gnome on my system

Edit:If you really cannot find what I was referring to then here is a link to what I used www.linuxpenguin.net/content/view/103/88888900/