Re: manual partition table

Gnome partion editor can expand an area on the drive....,
you can use the install cd and use it ftom there System>Admin>gnome.....

HTH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Broughton" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: manual partition table


Erik Schmidt wrote:

is it possible to use the manual partition table on teh ubuntu
installer to reintegrate two partitions?

Do you just want to take, e.g., partitions 2 & 3, turn them into a single
partition 2 and install a new filesystem on it?

Then, yes.

If you mean you want to combine two partitions into a single one with all
the data from both partitions, not easily! The simplest way is to back up
both filesystems, delete both partitions, create the new partition, put a
new filesystem on it and copy back the backups. The harder way is to
backup both partitions, delete partition 3, grow partition 2 to fill the
space (I know this can be done, I don't know if the partitioner on the
Ubuntu installer is capable), grow the _filesystem_ to fill the partition,
and then copy the files from partition 3 onto it - most of which you can't
do from inside the installer.
--
derek


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