Resizing Partitions

[otispodmore]

I managed to do that but i cant add the chunk to \ and \home.

it will not let me...

No, it goes something like this
You free up space from and after your D partition.
Now you move / to the left
Then you re-size / to what you want
Then you move your swap to the left
Then you move your /home to the left
then you decide how big you want /home
If you decide to make it smaller than the available space, you can create another partition ( for data )

One thing at the time
use 'apply' after every move above
Don't do them all at once. There is a possibility of trouble if you do
Take note, that moving can take a long time , regardless if the partitions are full or empty.
Be patient.    / can take an hour

i have read and reread  your post many times and i came to the same conlusion.

That you sugested that i move / and swap and /home to the left one by one ,once i have created the unalocated space out of the large D.

Corect me if i am wrong and please give some step by step instructions because i think i am messing up my computer...

[sling-shot]

Regarding SWAP partition, I guess OP will need it to be twice his RAM if he wants to enable hibernate option (also called Suspend to disk)

[brianp124]

I have run out of space on both \ and \home.

I have followed the steps of installing gparted and trying to understand how to allocate more space to \ and \home but i have failed...

my current structure is
system
C 40gb
D 240gb
\ 10gb
swap 1gb
\home 8gb

i wanted to break a chunk of 20 gb of the D .
I managed to do that but i cant add the chunk to \ and \home.

it will not let me...

I think the problem is you are using the installed gparted partition manager.  Partitions must be unmounted before modification which is why you can shrink the D drive, but not modify / or /home because they are in use

I recomend you download gParted Live and burn it to a CD.  Once the .iso is downloaded, check its md5sum against that published.  Once verified as OK burn it to the CD at a slow speed, say x4, then check the md5sum off the CD

WARNING  BACK UP all important data before using the gParted LiveCD.  A lot of data can easily be
destroyed if things go wrong

What is the layout of your hard drive? Would you please open a konsole and type the following:

df    <Enter>

su    <Enter>
password    <Enter>    That's your root password
fdisk -l    <Enter>    where l = lower case ell

then copy and paste the results back to here

[otispodmore]

i have deleted every partition and created new partitions..

i just couldnt understand why they wont move...perhaps they should have been unmounted first...

and i wasnt using an installed gparted .i was running it out of a live cd.


got rid of windows...wasnt using it much

[jdjack423]

Hi,

I'm experiencing a similar problem to the one in the original post in this thread. I need to resize my partitions because the root is out of free space.  I opened GParted to do this, however, all the buttons are greyed out. It is not allowing me to resize.  I have plenty of space on my 1TB hard drive to allocate, so that's not the issue.  If anyone knows why the buttons are greyed out and what I need to do to get this re-sized, please let me know.
Thanks!

[Xenaflux]

I need to resize my partitions because the root is out of free space

Maybe you have to much junk in your root.
Cleaning it out may give you more than you need.
But....maybe you're right

Answer the following:
How big is your /
How big is your /var/cache/apt/archives
Do you have games installed and how big are the databases of such games

Have you filelight installed ? ( Start/File tools/Filelight )
Have you used filelight to determine which partitions are abnormal big ?

[dvhenry]

Hi,

I'm experiencing a similar problem to the one in the original post in this thread. I need to resize my partitions because the root is out of free space.  I opened GParted to do this, however, all the buttons are greyed out. It is not allowing me to resize.  I have plenty of space on my 1TB hard drive to allocate, so that's not the issue.  If anyone knows why the buttons are greyed out and what I need to do to get this re-sized, please let me know.
Thanks!

Please open 'Konsole' and type su - enter the root password, and type fdisk -l then copy and paste the output here,(using CODE tags '#') there are a number of situations where gparted will refuse to resize,(with good reason). But fdisk -l output will often show them, and the problem preventing the resize can usually then be repaired.

Edit: Run gparted from a liveCD, http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads not the system you are trying to resize partitions on, the partitions you want to resize, for example, '/' must not be mounted while resizing or similar partition editing!!!

[jdjack423]

Hi,

I decided to reinstall KDE4 and redo the partitions as part of the reinstall.  That got me where I wanted to go with the partitions