[email protected] wrote:
Joe last wrote:
Utterly incomprehensible.
Eric last wrote:
Not really. I presume you did something that mounted a filesystem in one
of the partitions, but given that you haven't even told us *how* you're
running GParted, it's sorta hard for us to guess. :(
From the beginning of my inquiry, I provided a screen capture of GParted
at the following URL: http://upquick.com/linux/gparted1.png
That shows *what*, not *how*. There is more than one way to run GParted
- from a live CD or from your hard drive. Big difference when it comes
to what you're trying to do.
I had used a live-cd to install Linux in free space on a 200-gig HP box
that had a 10-gig HP restore partition as the primary (/dev/sda1) and four
extended sub-partitions (or file systems) within a second partitions
(/dev/sda2). I followed all the installation defaults; but when I then
tried to shrink the 'xp' space so I could increase the Linux space,
GParted would not allow me to do so. At no time while I tried numerous
scenarios to do this was the 'xp' partition or file space mounted.
As Joseph pointed out, as long as *any* filesystem on the drive is
mounted, the drive's partition table can/should not be modified. If you
ran GParted from the Linux distro that's on the HDD, that would be your
problem. You need to run GParted from a live CD.
In any case, after wasting 3 days on this ridiculous matter, I ultimately
gave up last night ane 'nuked' the whole dang thing.
So, yes, for me, it remains utterly incomprehensible and it all just
further reinforces my utter despise for everything about M$.
In this case, I don't believe that M$ was the problem, sad to say. I'm
sorry that we weren't able to assess your problem more efficiently.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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