Redistributing Free space on a hard drive

[dargx001]

I have recently installed installed Fedora10 on my laptop, but I would like to move all of my data that remains on my windows partition, over to my Linux partition. I know I could do this through a portable hard drive or other writeable media, but I would like to just move it across partitions. So I was wondering how I would go about redistributing free space from my windows partition to my Linux partition. I believe that I could do this through Fdisk, but I would rather it be a graphical interface if at all possible.

[oz]

Check out the Parted Magic LiveCD. It's a quick download and burn to disk, and is very easy to use:

Parted Magic LiveCD

[Rubberman]

You can repartition you drive after you move the data over to the Linux partition. Since the Windows partition is likely on the drive before you installed Linux, you will have difficulty merging them. The Parted Magic LiveCD mentioned by ozar might do it (I'm not familiar enough with its capabilities), but, if you use LVM (Logical Volume Manager), then once you have moved your data, you can use fdisk to make the WIndows space a Linux partition, then use the LVM to create a logical drive that includes both partitions. Under the covers, each partition will be an ext3 file system, but the LVM will present them to the OS as a single drive, and it will bridge data across them as necessary. You can also add more discs and add them to the logical volume to increase your apparent available space on your logical drive.