[ozar]

Originally Posted by imranka

And any idea about the strange behavior of qtparted?

I've not read the entire thread, but regarding the above question, I've often run into weird issues with qtparted, too. For that reason, I now do all my partitioning work with gparted. It just works and it works quite well. Generally, I use it straight off the PartedMagic LiveCD.

[imranka]

Hi ozar,

Yes, I tried too initially with parted magic starting from ver 2.2 - 2.0. But they didn't work for me as I've mentioned in my earlier post.

[devils casper]

Have you tried to install GParted in Ubuntu and unmount partitions for resizing?

[imranka]

Hi Casper,

As I mentioned before, my two ubuntu 6.06 is not booting. So, I got a kubuntu 7.10 and tried with that. kubuntu comes with that qtparted tool. I ran it as liveCD/ Now my doubt is that, if I run the liveCD of kubuntu which itself is >4.5GB, will it use the swap itself? If that is the case, is it possible to resize the swap?

Because, when I clicked resize, and checked again by right click, I saw the options are inactive, means I can't select them. Also, do I need to do swapoff before resizing? Is that you're saying

unmount partitions for resizing

by this?

[devils casper]

Yes. You have to execute swapoff command. Execute free command and check how much SWAP space is being used by Kubuntu. If its a few MB only then you can turm SWAP off without any problem.

[imranka]

Good news!!

I finally got the swap shrink. It has been created as /dev/sda-1 partition, now please tell me how to merge this partition with my /home that is /dev/sda7.

please reply.

[devils casper]

Post the output of fdisk -l command again.

[imranka]

Here it is:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdde8dde8

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2611 20972826 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2612 19456 135307462+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2612 10444 62918541 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 10445 12823 19109286 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 12824 19197 51199123+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 19198 19455 2072353+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Thanks

[imranka]

Oh my!

Just I saw in my fedora 'System monitor" , here the swap is still showing 2 GB, but from kubuntu qparted it really shrank.

What is this?