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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
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
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.
Before doing anything run chkdisk
Post output of
Quote:
df -h
&
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fdisk -l
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
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 34050 273395328 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 34050 38914 39071745 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 34050 38708 37422080 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 38709 38914 1648640 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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.
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