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That worked. It was a little difficult as Gparted failed when trying to resize the partition I wanted to keep so I had to open a terminal window and run FSCK a few times. Also trying to get root on a Ubuntu Live CD wasn't as easy as I thought but it works now!<div><br></div><div>thanks for the help all.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Mark Wright</div><div><a href="mailto:m.perry.wright@gmail.com">m.perry.wright@gmail.com</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Aug 5, 2010, at 7:39 PM, cdcoleman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Boot from a live CD and use gparted to delete the 8.04 partition and allocate it to the 9.04 partition. I guess you will have to change GRUB configuration so it will no longer boot to the deleted 8.04 partition. The link below should be helpful. <br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted">http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted</a></span><br><br><div> </div>Chris Coleman<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Mark Wright <<a href="mailto:m.perry.wright@gmail.com">m.perry.wright@gmail.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, August 5, 2010 8:40:25 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [ale] Next question-- partition trouble<br></font><br> Next question,<div><br></div><div>I installed ubuntu 9.04 on a laptop that had 8.04 and some other OS already on it. The partition software respected the previously installed OSes and only used what was left on the disk to put 9.04. I didn't need the down level Ubuntu partition but couldn't do anything about it. Now I am running out of space and want to find a way to get rid of the 8.04 partition and use the space for the 9.04 installation while preserving the other OS that is being tolerated due to proprietary wimax hardware.</div><div><br></div><div>I have been reading up on grub and gparted but am not seeing what I need. I think I should be able to erase the pointers to the partition with Grub then suck that space into the other Ubuntu installation with Gparted. </div><div><br></div><div> Any partitioning experts?<br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div>Mark Wright</div><div><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:m.perry.wright@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:m.perry.wright@gmail.com">m.perry.wright@gmail.com</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></div></div> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ale mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>