GParted and Ubuntu

Amnesia_180 · 05-21-2008, 12:22 AM

Hi All,

I have just downloaded GParted and i want to put unallocated space onto my sda2 folder.

How do I go about doing this?

I have included a copy of what my partitions look like this far... can you suggest any other way of cleaning up?

Thanks,
Amnesia

seriously · 05-21-2008, 01:05 AM

ok, i'm not sure if i have got it mixed up with another partitioning software, but try and see if this works.

first you merge the unallocated spce with sda5. then shrink sda 5 back to it's original size but specify that you want sda5 to be at the rear instead of the usual front end. so this make empty spaces behind sda2. then merge empty space with sda2.

hope this works. good luck.

edit:

actually you probably can adjust (increase) the size of sda2 and instruct gparted to take spaces from sda5 after you have merged empty space with sda5.

05-21-2008, 12:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
Amnesia_180 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 325 OS: Windows XP	GParted and Ubuntu Hi All, I have just downloaded GParted and i want to put unallocated space onto my sda2 folder. How do I go about doing this? I have included a copy of what my partitions look like this far... can you suggest any other way of cleaning up? Thanks, Amnesia __________________ ... --[Amnesia]-- ...

05-21-2008, 01:05 AM	#2 (permalink)
seriously Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 99 OS: win xp	Re: GParted and Ubuntu ok, i'm not sure if i have got it mixed up with another partitioning software, but try and see if this works. first you merge the unallocated spce with sda5. then shrink sda 5 back to it's original size but specify that you want sda5 to be at the rear instead of the usual front end. so this make empty spaces behind sda2. then merge empty space with sda2. hope this works. good luck. edit: actually you probably can adjust (increase) the size of sda2 and instruct gparted to take spaces from sda5 after you have merged empty space with sda5. Last edited by seriously; 05-21-2008 at 01:10 AM.