[SOLVED] Partioning Question

[weazol]

I am dual booting vista and linux mint 5.0
i used vista to partion 15gigs for the linux install
now i want to take away more from the vista partion and add to the linux partion without messing up either os

[devils casper]

You can do that through PartedMagic LiveCD easily. Post output of sudo fdisk -l command here before resizing partitions.
Open Terminal of Linux Mint and execute this

sudo fdisk -l

[weazol]

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd23d125d

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       16018   128662693+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           17931       19457    12265627+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           16019       17930    15358140   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

[devils casper]

Boot up from Ubuntu CD and open GParted Partition Manager. Its in Menu. You can shrink /dev/sda1, merge space in /dev/sda2. shrink /dev/sda2 and merge space in /dev/sda3.

You can use PartedMagic LiveCD too. Both GParted and PartedMagic use same tool, parted in backend.

[weazol]

i read that using gparted on a windows drive will mess windows up and you have to repair it. problem with that is i dont have the original install disk

[devils casper]

Latest version of PartedMagic LiveCD supports Vista Partitions pretty well. Don't worry ! You won't have any problem.

[oz]

Please allow me to step in here and give a follow up recommendation for using the latest PartedMagic LiveCD. It's full of very useful tools and utilities, and should be kept on hand by all Linux and Windows users, at least in my own opinion.

Use it to setup your partitions the way you want, then when you go to install Linux, simply direct the installer to use the partitions you've already created.

[weazol]

it worked thanks... here is the results

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd23d125d

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        9644    77465398+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           18058       19457    11245500    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            9645       18057    67577422+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

[devils casper]

Well Done ! and glad to help you weazol !
Do start a new thread if you have any other question.