Re: Changing partition sizes on dual boot disks.

2016-04-08 Thread g
*further thought* as long as you will be making backups of both linux and oos, you really do not need to 'move' linux on sda3. i would suggest; delete old sda3 create new sda2 as swap create new sda3 as / restore linux to sda3 time it would take to restore linux to sda3 will not be tha

Re: Changing partition sizes on dual boot disks.

2016-04-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/07/2016 09:34 PM, jd1008 wrote: Can parted handle 1. shrinking partition 3 (i.e. starts at a numerically higher block number) This will be two steps. Shrink partition, then move it. Gparted would let you set it up as one step, but it is done in two. 2. fixing the installed

Re: Changing partition sizes on dual boot disks.

2016-04-07 Thread g
On 04/07/16 23:34, jd1008 wrote: > Hi all. > I have a dos partitioned drive. > partition 1 has windoze > there is no partition 2 (it was deleted and it's space added to partition 1, > using the old software called "Partition Magic". > partition 3 is fedora > partition 4 is fedora's swap. > > Fedo

Changing partition sizes on dual boot disks.

2016-04-07 Thread jd1008
Hi all. I have a dos partitioned drive. partition 1 has windoze there is no partition 2 (it was deleted and it's space added to partition 1, using the old software called "Partition Magic". partition 3 is fedora partition 4 is fedora's swap. Fedora partition is only using 3% of it's available spa