Subject: Re: [LAU] [OT] recommended partition manager ?

From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@...> · Date: Monday, December 14, 2009 - 3:35 pm

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Dave Phillips  wrote:

quoted text> Greetings,

>

> My laptop has seen a variety of installs over the past year, and I now

> have a fair amount of delegated but unused disk space. Is there a

> recommended procedure or program that can re-acquire that space for my

> Karmic installation ? I've never repartitioned a disk *after* an

> installation, so I'm a bit nervous about the process. Advice is needed

> and welcome.

>

> TIA,

>

> dp
Dave,

   Try the gparted live CD. Works fine even on disks with NTFS in my experience.
  Granted, it's a bit scary nearly every time I use it, but it works

and it's never apparently hurt my machines. I usually go step by step.

I'll remove or resize down one partition that I'm least interested in

and then I'll reboot every installation and make sure things look

good. Then I'll boot the CD again and do the next step. I prefer to be

silly-paranoid when using it. I go very slow and carefully think about

each step, but as I say I've never had anything go wrong so I'm happy

to recommend it.
Good luck,

Mark

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