I need help on resizing my partitions for Ubuntu currently I have a root"ext3" and swap"ext3" and I would like to add more space to the root I do have partition magic and about 35 gig on a partition that I have not put a mount to so since I am new to this I need help on what my options are


Thank you

Since you want to resize the root partition you will need to do this outside of your normal boot environment. I have successfully used GNU parted and a live CD that had it. I used Kanotix, but others should work. Some of the live CD's have QTparted which should work. I ran into trouble trying to use it for some reason, can't remember. Another downside to qtparted is it that it is getting outdated and no longer maintained. I would just use the command line parted.

I know I can boot to the partition magic cd would that work with ext3?

You need to check if your version of PM has support.

Support for what ext3?

I have partition magic 8

It would appear the marketing literature says yes support for ext3. You can always just boot your PM cd and see if the resize, move, etc options are available. I used PM for some time back in the day and it will grey out options that are not available for that partition. So, give it a try, you should be fine.

Thank you to all

Me too! Partition Magic tells me that inode count or something like that is off...

Gparted has a graphical interface as well as command line. I have used the command line version and it worked great on ext3.

Got an old Gateway 2000 p5-233 with 64mb RAM, BIOS 0AAES045, 8gb HDD



Attempting to learn linux through Ubuntu 5.1

Problem is a grub 18 error

tried 4gb partition and 8 gb partition, same errors

Now attempting to download systemrescue CD, hoping this will fix

Any ideas from anyone how to fix this thing?

tokenringman38, don't go hi-jacking threads like that.
Bad netiquette, and your problem won't be seen by most of the subscribers.
Start a new thread so people know you are there.

That is a BIOS issue. Try creating a 32 Meg /boot partition at the start of the disk. Make sure it's ext2.

Oh - and welcometo LQ ...

Try either Qtparted or Gparted. You can install them with Apt-get.

or

Sorry if I did something wrong here, was not trying to offend anyone -- only get some questions answered. How do I start the new thread and all that? If this is a true BIOS issue, where should the post have been placed?

Live and learn - we're all just trying to help each other.
To start a new thread, just go to a forum, rather than picking a post - there's a "new thread" button.

As for where, pick one. Really - newbies, general, hardware, Ubuntu ...
If you don't know, pick something close.
What you want is *your* post to be listed on "new posts". If it's badly out of place the moderators will move it as appropriate.

First, want to say thanks for the help.

Not sure if I have been in Windows land too long and just not getting it, if I am trying too hard or what.

Several had suggested programs (qtparted and gparted) to help with the partition editing and I looked around for them. I did find some rather small files, but no docs for them. Do I load them on a floppy or what? Once I load them on something, what do I do with them?

Also, (if this needs to be in another thread, please let me know or contact me offline) if this is a BIOS problem, how can I "fix it"?

Appreciate the patience.