Re: Help on resizing partitions with GParted

Before you do anything else, figure what is going on with your lvm2
partition. You may a some space there you can use. It is allocated to a
Linux Volume Manager partition. The 'lvmdisplay' command will be
helpful. If installed, 'system-config-lvm' will give you a graphical
representation and a GUI to modify.

On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 19:50 -0600, John Bundy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need advice in changing the partitioning on my dual boot (WinXP /
> Ubuntu10.04) notebook.
> 
> I am having problems because I am almost out of space on my Linux
> partition.  I am not able to install some larger updates.  From what I
> am hearing, GParted LiveCD is probably the best tool for this.  I am
> not sure where to get the space from, but worst case I think I can
> make my NTFS partition 2G smaller and make this available for my Linux
> ext4 partition.  I have a 160G hard disk and there is a large 107G
> lvm2 partition but GParted says it can not resize this.  I don't know
> what the lmv2 partition is for.
> 
> Hear is what GParted reports:
> Partition        File System    Size        Used      Unused    Flags
> /dev/sda1      NTFS              38.59G    29.09G   9.49G
> /dev/sda4      extended         2.88G
> /dev/sda5      ext4                2.70G      2.34G    369.08M
> /dev/sda6      linux-swap       187.00M 
> /dev/sda2      ext4                200.00M  60.19M  139.81M  Boot
> /dev/sda3      lvm2                107.39G
> lvm
> unallocated   unallocated       2.49M 
> 
> I want to add about 2G to the /dev/sda5 ext4 partition.  
> 
> Can someone suggest the best approach.  BTW I have never used GParted.
> I used to use Partion Magic.
> 
> This is what I think I would do:
> Reduce the /dev/sda1 NTFS partition by 2 G
> Move the /dev/sda4 extended partition up
> Move the /dev/sda5 partition up and increase by 2G
> The other partitions would remain the same.
> 
> Also, it looks like my linux swap partition may be too small.  I read
> that it should be about the size of RAM, which is 2G in this case.
> Unless I can somehow free up the LVM partition space I don't seem to
> have enough free space to also increase swap partition much.
> 
> I am probably going to work on this during the weekend.  I have had a
> number of different configurations on the notebook, including Ubuntu
> in Windows with WUBI and Fedora 12 - both removed.  I have Sun Virtual
> Box installed on WinXP and have experimented with running Ubuntu 10.04
> on top of Windows.
> 
> John Bundy
> 
> 
> 
> 


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