On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Neil Greenwood <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
No, it doesn't need to be, but that is in fact the recommended arrangement for secondary and subsidiary drives. The reasons are historical and don't apply to Linux, really, but I like to stick to the tried & tested old ways, myself. :¬) >>>> 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. Definitely agreed. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
