Question: Need to increase Partition. Dual Boot (Window 7 / Linux)

[rolandr]

I want to increase my LINUX partition (yup I'm late to the party and LINUX is AWESOME!)

My laptop is fairly new anyway, when installing LINUX I only partition 30 gigs for LINUX. Because of my UNIX background I realize I maybe using it 60% Linux and 40% Window so I would like to increase my Linux partition.

I downloaded KDE Partition Manager. Should I defrag the Window partition before adding more room on LINUX?

Is there any other catches or gotcha? Thanks in advance.

edit: my hardrive is 320 Gig capacity and seems like a total of 80 gig is used up.

[DeadBattery]

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[Smith6612]

First of all, I suggest using the Microsoft Disk Management console inside of Windows to Shrink the Windows Partition down to a size where you want it. There shouldn't be much of a need to defragment it. Once you have shrunken the Windows partition, use Linux to increase the size of the Linux partition to occupy the unpartitioned space.

[slacker_]

I second that. :-)

Also, i can recommend you Parted Magic (linux live distro) for partitioning tasks.

[rolandr]

Thanks, guys. Feel guilty, I don't contribute much yet I asks too many question.

[Smith6612]

Thanks, guys. Feel guilty, I don't contribute much yet I asks too many question.

Nothing wrong with that at all

[rolandr]

... I tried to go to MS Disk Management and expected to see the partitions. But I didn't see that.

Because I installed LINUX UBUNTU version as an application in a Window Environment, Window treats UBUNTU as a "folder" not a partition.

Now what? (sad face)

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Oh, yeah, giving me link to read about this would be fine. I don't expect you guys to grab me by the hand and lead me what to do. I could do some of the leg work.

[Brandon]

If you only have one partition, you might not beable to expand your / while booted in linux, you might have to use some sort of Live CD.

[rolandr]

I had a feeling installing Ubuntu under Window Environment had consequences. I suppose I could make a new partition on hard drive then reinstall LINUX and remove the "Window" Linux.

... or How can I increase storage room fro Ununtu Linux if its a folder under Windows? You see, when I installed it, I just made 30 gigs. But now I already used up 15 gigs.

I'll check out the Ubuntu community forum see how they deal with this.

[rolandr]

... since Ubuntu Linux is a folder under Window 7 is there anyway I could increase this Ubuntu folder? I assumed when I installed Ubuntu, I "allocate" 30 Gigs, so I assume I'm 'fixed' with this amount.

Could I use some Linux command with the Terminal to increase storage? >fdisk -l "something or rather"

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everyone thanks, just post this question on the Ubuntu form and I actually have 'virtual' partition and. A member posted where I could re-partition for more storage.