Kerry wrote, On 15/09/09 20:56:
I've nearly run out of disk space on the root partition of my Kubuntu 9.04
machine. I have around 10G of unallocated space at the end of my drive and I
am wondering how I can safely allocate some of this space to root?
I've taken a screenshot of the partition on gparted and you can check that our
here: http://manukadesign.co.nz/assets/Images/screen_shot_gparted.png
I've had a pit of a google but all info seemed to be a few years old
Disk is split into contiguous partitions.
Filesystems exist over a partition.
So, you're stuffed.
You'd need to boot into single user mode and extend the extended
partition to cover the whole space, then shuffle sda8 to the right, then
delete sda7 and make a new swap partition no larger than 1GB. Then
shuffle sda6 to the right,
Then reboot off a rescue CD or knoppix or something, and expand the root
partition. Shouldn't have to do anything with bootloaders though.
Another option... even with 9.25GB +17ishGB is only adding 26GB. Add
another drive for $150ish and get another 1TB.
--
Craig Falconer
