Reallocating Drive Space

[Daniel Robitaille]

> Here's the drive layout:
>
> david at n1zhe:~$ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3              37G  8.8G   27G  26% /
> tmpfs                 253M  8.0K  253M   1% /dev/shm
> /dev/hdb1              19G   15G  3.4G  82% /home
> /dev/hda1              39G   14G   25G  35% /media/windoze
>
> I want to reduce the size of my Windows partition by half. I want to
> reallocate this room to my main Linux partition (hda3).
>
> I then want to move my /home folder to hda3. I'll use hdb1 to store
> photos, music files, ISO's, etc.
>
> Moving the /home folder won't be all that hard, but I'd like to know
> the best way to resize my hda drive, then reallocate the space for
> Ubuntu without hosing the whole works.
>
> Any suggestions?
>

qtparted should be able to do that.  I haven't done it in a while (and
only in fat32 partition, never ntfs), but the last time I did a resize
of partitions  I used qtparted, using the Knoppix Live CD.

Don't forget to backups before you attempt anything :)
I remember Partition Magic trashing my Windows 98 partition once a few
years ago. while doing something like you want to do...

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Daniel Robitaille