Partition problems after installing a second Kubuntu version

[john d. herron]

On 12/09/09 09:56, Nils Kassube wrote:

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         On 11/09/09  John Herron wrote:
>> ... Yesterday afternoon I tried to do step  1: qtparted let me enter the
>> change, but did not commit.
>> Am I overlooking anything? perhaps something elementary?
>>     
>
> Probably you didn't unmount the partition. You may not make changes to a 
> partition which is in use and qtparted doesn't allow to do it. I would 
> suggest you do all those partition shuffling from a live CD where you 
> don't need any partitions mounted. But beware, the live CD may use the 
> swap partition anyway. You can disable the swap partition with the 
> command
>
> sudo swapoff -a
>
> in a terminal if you can't do it from qtparted
>   
Sorry I took awhile to get back.

In the meantime I have apparently managed to solve the synaptic situation by
re-linking to the <http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty ...>
repositories (following your advice), and also replaced qtparted with 
gparted
(airier and more pleasing to the eye).

I've decided to do the partition changes gradually (i.e. not all at once).
So yesterday, after moving some stuff to the external UBS hdd (a lot of 
win95
non-essentials from /dev/hda1 and the remains from a very recently 
attempted
- and botched - Kubuntu 8.04 installation into /dev/hda3), I tried to 
unmount and
shrink /dev/hda1by some 3 GB.
Gparted answered:
    "The partition could not be unmounted from the following mountpoints:
                /media/hda1.
    Most likely other partitions are also mounted on these mountpoints.
    You are advised to unmount them manually."

Does this mean I should, as I proceed to rearrange things, gradually 
disable
(and then re-enable) each partition in a terminal?

By the way: I just now notice that
    /dev/hda3 does not have an UUID assigned to it in /etc/fstab; and
    /dev/hda7 is mounted on /; shouldn't it be mounted on /dev/hda7?

The questions arise because when I did the 'botched' Kubuntu 8.04.2 install
about a month or so ago, the Live CD would not let me chose /dev/hda3 as
mount point; it insisted on wanting / as mount point. But just now I notice
that Feisty, on /dev/hda7, is already mounted there... Conflict situation?

Like I said earlier, I'm no expert even though I've been working on Linux
for some five years now, and I'm really grateful for the sorely needed help
you have been so graciously providing (and may, hopefully, still lend).

john

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