On 18 May 2010 18:11, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 18 May 2010 15:41, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Easy. Using Gparted, shrink the NTFS partition to half the drive. (Say). >>> >>> Make a new extended partition. In there make a logical drive. Format it >>> ext3.
It doesn't actually need to be a logical drive in an extended partition (although it won't hurt). You can have up to 4 primary partitions on a drive. If you're intending to delete the primary NTFS partition after moving the files, it'll look a little odd to end up with just one extended partition with a logical partition inside it. Just my opinion. >>> Mount both. >>> >>> Move all the stuff from the NTFS partition to the ext3 partition. >>> >>> When the NTFS partition is empty, unmount both. Use Gparted to remove >>> the NTFS partition. Expand the ext3 partition to fill the drive. >> >> Don't forget to back it up first. >> Good advice from Colin. I have occasionally risked repartitioning without a backup, but only when I don't care too much about what's on the drive I'm repartitioning. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
