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Question

HD partitions

May 17, 2012 5:55AM PDT

Hey I have an windows partition and a linux partition on my hd. My windows partition is quickly running out of room while I still have plenty of space on the linux one. Is there and easy, free, and safe way to re-size the partitions to increase the size windows partition?

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I have to go with no.
May 17, 2012 6:06AM PDT

That is, while there are partition resizing applications, some folk skip backups and discover that while it works most of the time, there is that one time...

In the past I've used GPARTED to do this. Free, only a little challenging.
Bob

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Re: resizing
May 17, 2012 6:08AM PDT

You need a partition editor that understands Linux partition.

Try GPARTED. Download the .iso and burn it to CD to boot from.

Kees

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why
May 17, 2012 4:53PM PDT

why "You need a partition editor that understands Linux partition. "

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Re: partition editor
May 17, 2012 6:46PM PDT

I never tried, but I'm afraid the Windows partition editor (Disk Management that is included in Windows) isn't able to resize a Linux partition. It has a different filesystem (not NTFS or FAT32). Partitioning involves making a file system on the new partition. Resizing involves editing the file system. That's why a Linux based partition editor, like GPARTED, might be better.
If you've got another favorite partition manager and that handles Linux partitions, just use that.

Kees

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Because you have a Linux partition.
May 18, 2012 4:19AM PDT

It's that simple.