Ubuntu out growing its disk space

porkrind · 16 Jan 2007 at 12:26

hi i made a 20gb partition to mess about with linux(ubuntu) I have now decided to keep but I need to allocate some more disk space.

I have a 30Gb partition that I was trialing Vista RC that I want to free up and use as space for ubuntu.

so I format the Vista partion as ext3 right then what?

Nefarious · 16 Jan 2007 at 13:37

You can either do that or format it in a filesystem that can be read by both XP and Linux. Some kernels can read (but not to my knowledge write) to NTFS or you always go with FAT32 which both can write to. Is that of any help?

porkrind · 16 Jan 2007 at 16:12

yer fat32 mght be better do need access va windows

Augmented · 16 Jan 2007 at 16:32

I dual-boot and use ext3 for all my drives. R/W in Windows using the Ext2 IFS driver, though my Windows install itself resides on a small NTFS partition (which you can read in Linux/Ubuntu). Not had any problems with the driver, works perfectly and transparently - very impressed with it.

/edit - actually one issue I've had with that method, not directly related to the driver, is filenames with unicode characters - Windows seems to differ in its method of saving unicode characters in filenames to Linux. Not really an issue, but can make some files problematic to the other OS.

Dj_Jestar · 16 Jan 2007 at 16:47

another option is to just extend the existing 20gb partition (/)

using fdisk, delete the current partition, then remake it with the increased allocation.

DO NOT EXIT/WRITE TO DISK BEFORE REALLOCATING THE SPACE.

porkrind · 16 Jan 2007 at 17:19

Dj_Jestar said:
another option is to just extend the existing 20gb partition (/)

using fdisk, delete the current partition, then remake it with the increased allocation.

DO NOT EXIT/WRITE TO DISK BEFORE REALLOCATING THE SPACE.

so i would delete the 30Gb vista partiton then delete my 20gb (ubuntu) partition.

then create a 50gb partition?

Dj_Jestar · 16 Jan 2007 at 17:26

providing they are in sequential order, yes.

e.g. /dev/hda1 is the ext3 ubuntu partion /dev/hda2 is the ntfs partition. Drop /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda1, then recreate /dev/hda1 as it was before, with the exception of the ending block being that of /dev/hda2's ending block.

But I repeat - do NOT write to disk or exit the fdisk session before reallocating the space.