backup gnome+ home, or expand linux partition
 

Hello, I have a dual boot with linux and windows,
I would like to shrink my windows partion and expand my linux partition, if this is possible any guidance would be apprecaited.

However if this is note possible, I would like to know how to back up gnome configurations, themes, and panels, along with the home directory.

Id like to make linux bigger but I dont want to fresh install, but if i can back up all the stuff i've spent time configuring than I'll do a fresh install and restore the backup. I've attached a picture of my desktop... because its pretty, thanx in advanced

You don't say which version of windows that you wish to shrink.

If you are using XP, then you should be able to safely shrink your windows partition with GParted.

If you are using vista or 7, then you should probably re-size you windows partition from within windows.

After you have re-sized your windows partition to your liking, then you can use GParted to expand your linux partition to fill the free space.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/

oh im sorry, i'm running windows 7, and honestly thats what I thought I should do but I found a similiar forum post that said it wasnt possible which I found strange so I reposted, thanx though i'll give it a try and come back if I encounter problems

im having trouble resizing in windows 7, it stops about half way through, is there any danger to resizing in gparted

Before doing anything run chkdisk
Post output of
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If you resized windows 7 with it's disk utilities it would only resize by 50% & can't be done again with windows 7 utilities, you would have to do it with gparted-live-cd.

fdisk -l listed nothing, but df -h shows

also windows required me to run chkdsk the first time I attempted to resize in windows 7, so thats been done.

You need to run

as root.

thanx :)

If you want to resize using gparted do 1 task at a time.

1. Defrag
2. resize sda2
3. You will have resize sda3 to the left, you may not be able to drag to the left using mouse, it will say 'free space before' you will need to change the numbers to 0.
4. Resize sda5 to the left, at this point you will be able to dragpartition or use the same option as in step 3.
Each step I have had to do individually when resizing.