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Is there an easy way I can do this? I would prefer to use a GUI based partitioner like Gparted, but I tried to install said program and it said ...
  1. 03-27-2007 #1
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    Resizing the Linux Partition

    Is there an easy way I can do this? I would prefer to use a GUI based partitioner like Gparted, but I tried to install said program and it said i was missing "libuuid". I cant find a place to get this.

    Is there an easy(ish) way to expand my ex3 partition? I have 17gb of unused space on an NTFS partition that i could siphon off.
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    Probably easiest to use the Gparted LiveCD:

    http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

    It's a small download and it's easy to use.
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    gparted usually comes on a bootable cd image.

    http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

    You want the live CD version
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    probably a dumb question: Can i burn this to a DVD and have the same effect? I currently have no blank CD's availible but had like 75 dvd's
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    It is just an iso file so I know of no reason you can't. DO NOT burn as a data disk!!
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    Ok. So i expanded my Linux partition. But it was kinda wierd. my hda2 (linux) partition was an "extended" partition" it had 2 (now 3) sub-partitions, hda5 and hda6. Shouldnt it be one big partition instead of, now 3 smaller ones?
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    boot up from GParted LiveCD, open terminal and execute 'fdisk -l' command. post output here.
    It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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    Ok, Havent Been home all day so havent been able to launch the live cd. However i did go intro the Partitioning on OpenSuSE.

    hda5 is mounted on "/' (root)
    hda6 is mounted on /home
    and hda7 (the new 10 gig partition) is not mounted anywhere.

    Should I just change the mount points to the partitions to "/"? or what? (I'll run Gparted life CD when i get home)
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