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TheComet
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Posted: 25th Aug 2009 20:02
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Hey guys!

So, a few years ago I installed ubuntu on a computer on a 150GB hard drive. I set it so ubuntu would only use 75GB, and I installed (Duel Booted) Windows on the other 75GB. It turns out I don't need windows any more, so I formated that partition. Now I am running out of space on the ubuntu partition and want to extend the 75GB to the full 150GB, but can't seem to do that.

Can anyone help me?

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Omega gamer 89
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Posted: 25th Aug 2009 20:10
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Look up GParted. Its the partition editor for Linux. Either that, or look up some terminal commands.

Also, you erased Windows... to keep Linux...?
WTF MAN?!

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Posted: 25th Aug 2009 20:34
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Quote: "Look up GParted. Its the partition editor for Linux. Either that, or look up some terminal commands."


Yeah, I've just installed it, and this is what I get:



Even if I boot from my ubuntu CD so the main partition is not mounted, I can't seem to extend it over the unallocated space...

Quote: "Also, you erased Windows... to keep Linux...?
WTF MAN?!"


No worries, man! I have a second computer for windows. Though, I much prefer LINUX over windows, it's just that I am stuck with windows until TGC makes DarkBASIC compatible with OpenGL and not only DirectX. Or until Bill Gates releases the Windows XP source code so the WINE staff can finally complete the Windows program loader.

I really don't see why you all use windows... LINUX is getting much better. A few years ago it was barely worth using, but now it is great. If every program you had would run on LINUX, would your next computer be a LINUX computer or a Windows computer? Also, LINUX is free, Windows and MAC aren't...

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Posted: 25th Aug 2009 20:44
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I'm not sure what is wrong there, but I can try and ask my friend Mike, he is a Linux junkie. He'll know.


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Quote: "I really don't see why you all use windows... "

Because all the programs I need to use (for school, work, programming, etc...) Only work on windows.
Also, I refuse to ever touch Linux again since it nearly killed my computer.
I had installed Ubuntu on a partition of my B:/ drive, and later, I deleted the partition. What I didn't know is that GRUB is a total piece of crap about being removed. I couldn't get it to boot anything at all, because GRUB had been written to the Master Boot Record. I had to stay up eight hours longer than I wanted to and try to fix it,(had class the next day, too) and I only got my machine working again after I was able to get a wireless signal on my Laptop, look up some instructions, dig out my Vista install disc, open the command prompt from the repair terminal, and enter some commands to fix the Master Boot Record.
After putting me through all that, Linux will never again defile my computer.
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I also love linux.

Did you try grabbing the space in between the two partitions and dragging?

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Yep. Didn't work. It says I can not extend the partition to more than what it currently is... I really don't get it. I asked at an ubuntu forum, and they said I should back up the partition, format the whole disk and re-install ubuntu. There surely has to be another way...

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I'd use Linux if they dropped all that abbreviation crap. This isn't 1991. Even then there wasn't a whole lot of point because there wasn't a whole lot to display in the system either. According to an online dictionary, SDA stands for System Display Architecture. Scratch that, if that's what a partition is going to be called, leave it as SDA.

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Posted: 25th Aug 2009 22:11
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Nex, check out Ubuntu.

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Posted: 25th Aug 2009 22:18 Edited at: 25th Aug 2009 22:33
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I'm looking at your screenshot, right there, and unnecessary abbreviations again. It's probably been abstracted enough by modern GUIs to be usable by human beings but being confronted by "HDA1" instead of "Hard Disk, Slot A, Partition 1" is intimidating. And why is it under "dev" rather than something sensible like "Volumes" or better yet "Drives"?

The issue is that if Linux did become mainstream and something went wrong, users would be completely stumped because their drives aren't showing up as "My Hard Disk" any more, it's "SDB2". It's a fairly good OS in a lot of respects.

I have always wanted to write my own window manager for Linux...

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Posted: 26th Aug 2009 02:28 Edited at: 26th Aug 2009 02:32
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EDIT: The key icon on gparted is telling you the drive is mounted and can't be modified. When you booted from CD, was that icon still there? (Because it's possible Ubuntu may mount it for 'convenience' reasons if it detects partitions of compatible filesystems)

Quote: "The issue is that if Linux did become mainstream and something went wrong, users would be completely stumped because their drives aren't showing up as "My Hard Disk" any more, it's "SDB2". It's a fairly good OS in a lot of respects."


That's the device name in the hardware hierarchy (as in, /dev/'s name for it) not its label/what it's referred to in the remainder of the UI

Same as Windows referring to its drives as multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) etc.

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Posted: 26th Aug 2009 04:20
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Quote: "I have always wanted to write my own window manager for Linux..."


Then do it. It's one thing to complain vehemently about something, but if you can do a better job then by all means . And the window manager doesn't dictate the names of the devices, by the way.


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I know that. But if you write your own window manager from scratch you can implement your own ideas. Like windows not jumping to the foreground unless you haven't interacted with your current window for five seconds. Like your own variants of Expose, etc.

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Posted: 26th Aug 2009 16:37
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Quote: "EDIT: The key icon on gparted is telling you the drive is mounted and can't be modified. When you booted from CD, was that icon still there? (Because it's possible Ubuntu may mount it for 'convenience' reasons if it detects partitions of compatible filesystems)"


Quote: "Even if I boot from my ubuntu CD so the main partition is not mounted, I can't seem to extend it over the unallocated space...
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Posted: 26th Aug 2009 18:35 Edited at: 26th Aug 2009 18:47
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Quote: "EDIT: The key icon on gparted is telling you the drive is mounted and can't be modified. When you booted from CD, was that icon still there? (Because it's possible Ubuntu may mount it for 'convenience' reasons if it detects partitions of compatible filesystems)"


You still haven't answered the question (and I doubt you checked mount to see if it had been auto-mounted)

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Sorry for not reading correctly, thanks for pointing out DavidR, no, it is not mounted when I boot from the CD, and I can not extend it to more than it currently is.

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Posted: 26th Aug 2009 21:22
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Format the entire hard drive, start fresh
It's so much easier.

Your mother has been erased by a mod because it's larger than 600x120
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Posted: 26th Aug 2009 21:35 Edited at: 26th Aug 2009 21:37
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OK, I suppose this discussion is closed... Thanks for the help to everyone!

I am currently backing up my harddrive, 2 hours and 36 minutes remaining

@DavidR

The screenshot is not from the CD boot. When I boot from the CD, there are no keys there at all, and I am free to resize the ubuntu partition. But I can't go over 75.8 GB.

@Nex

I would love to see your window manager!

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