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Topic: Reclaiming space when sizing down?

Hi everyone. I am trying to resize some of my partitions (downward) and I see no way of reapplying that space to my Windows (NTFS) drive. Is there a way to do this? Right now it just shows it as unused space, but there's no way to increase the maximum size of my Windows drive.

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John

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Re: Reclaiming space when sizing down?

I'd love the usefull amount of information in your question tongue
Now i can only guess that you are trying to move the start of your ntfspartition? If you want to do that you need the latest version of gparted (0.3.1). I advice you to download the latest livecd from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

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Re: Reclaiming space when sizing down?

Ok, here's more info. My current partitions look like this:

NTFS    20GB
/          10GB
/home    1GB
shared  25GB
swap      1GB

After I do the resizing, it looks like this in GParted:

NTFS    20GB
/            7GB
unused space 3GB
/home    512MB
unused   512MB
shared  512MB
unused  24.5GB
swap     512MB
unused  512MB

Then when I try to resize the NTFS partition to take up all that unused space, it still shows a maximum of 20GB.

Hope that helps a little.

Thanks!

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Re: Reclaiming space when sizing down?

wat is shared?
can't you just get me the output of fdisk -ul ?

thanks

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Re: Reclaiming space when sizing down?

Sorry, I don't know what that is.

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Re: Reclaiming space when sizing down?

if you open a terminal and type 'fdisk -lu' you will see some output, i'd like to see that smile

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Re: Reclaiming space when sizing down?

Ok, I'll have to do that when I get home. Thanks! smile