[email protected] wrote: > How can I shrink the ntfs file system /dev/sda5 shown in the following > screen capture: > > - - - http://upquick.com/linux/gparted1.png - - - > > to make room to increase the size of my Linux home partition /dev/sda8 ? > > I've used ntfsresize to reduce the size of the sda5 partition from 158 gig > to 67 gig, but gparted will not allow me to shrink (resize) sda5. The > "Resize/Move" option in gparted is grayed out as shown in the screen > capture. > > So what else can I do to shrink sda5?
Have you booted from a gparted live cd? The only time I've seen locks like that is when running gparted when there are mounted file systems. --Jason
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