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The laptop had a dual boot with Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 9.04 The partition with 8.04 uses the first half of the hard drive. I now wish to delete 8.04 ...
- 01-05-2010 #1Linux Newbie
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Recovering unused partition
The laptop had a dual boot with Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 9.04 The partition with 8.04 uses the first half of the hard drive. I now wish to delete 8.04 but this will leave half the drive empty. How can I recover this unused space so that 9.04 has full use of it?
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- 01-05-2010 #2forum.guy
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You'll need to absorb the freed space into your current partitions and then edit your fstab and grub.conf files accordingly, or you can delete the unused partition and keep it as unallocated space for later use. Another option would be to convert the unused partition into file storage space. If you don't change the partition table, you won't have to edit the above-mentioned files. In the end, it all depends on what you want to do with the newly available space.
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The Parted Magic LiveCD would be a great tool for handing any of the chores described above.oz
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- 01-07-2010 #3Linux Newbie
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The Parted Magic disk worked. I was having kittens in case I got it wrong, but It recovered the disk space for me. I had to use SuperGrub to get access to the menu.lst, fstab and grub.conf files and I edited them using copies of files from another machine as a reference.
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- 01-07-2010 #4forum.guy
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Yeah, the Parted Magic live disk is one of my all time favorites because it's small but loaded with lots of handy utilities.
Glad that it worked for you!
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