Resizing

[Jonesy]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:06:53 -0500, Stephen wrote:
> On 10/03/2012 4:33 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> Stephen wrote:
>>> Hello I'm using Ubuntu 10, 11. I originally set it up in a 40gb
>>> partition on a windows xp drive. I wanted to give more space to the
>>> ubuntu partition.
>>> I shrunk the windows partition by 30 gig, and tried to make the linux
>>> partition larger but it wouldn't let me because I couldn't unmount
>>> the partition.
>>> So I booted from a live disk and started gparted. All I could do was
>>> shrink the linux partition it wouldn't let me make it larger.
>> Can you post the output of the command
>>
>> sudo fdisk -l
>>
>> in a terminal? That might help us determine the reason for the problem.
>>
>> One idea: Could it be that your Linux partition is a logical partition
>> within an extended partition? Then you should first expand the extended
>> partition and afterwards you should be able to expand the Linux
>> partiion.
>>
> Thank you for your response.
> I tried again.
> Here is the read out from sudo -l
>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *          63   892377087   446188512+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> /dev/sda2       892379134   976768064    42194465+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5       973217763   976768064     1775151   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda6       892379136   969025535    38323200   83  Linux
> /dev/sda7       969027584   973215743     2094080   82  Linux swap / Solaris
>
> I tried again to enlarge the dev/sda2. Which seems to be a container for 
> all the linux partitions. It wouldn't give me the option to re-size it. 
> I tried again to enlarge the dev/sda6 which is EXT4 format.

Having just gone through a similar 'exercise'...
If you're working from a live CD, you'll have to 'release' the swap 
device(s) -- sda5 (and/or sda7).  man swapoff.
The live CD will use any (all?) swap device(s) it finds on the hard 
drive(s).

Alternately, in gparted, (right?) click on the little icon (is it a 
padlock? I forget now.) near the sda2 (or/and sda7) objects and you'll 
be presented with a dropdown that includes a "swapoff" option.

THEN you can move on with expanding the logical partition.

HTH,
Jonesy
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