Ubuntu :: Partition To Around 30 - 40 GB And Add The Remaining Space To The 40 GB Partition?

Aug 14, 2010

This morning, my hard drive looked something like this - Windows Vista on a partition of around 100 GB (NTFS), Ubuntu 10.04 (ext3)on a partition of around 80 GB, 4 GB swap and a partition of around 40 GB (NTFS) containing videos and music and stuff like that. I wanted to resize the Ubuntu partition to around 30 - 40 GB and add the remaining space to the 40 GB partition.

I successfully reduced the Ubuntu partition using the Partition Manager app that comes with Ubuntu, but I was unable to add that to the NTFS partition. After a merge failed, I was no longer able to access the 40 GB partition. I tried restoring that with testdisk, and now I can't access anything! GRUB fails to load, and when running from the live CD of 9.04 (only version I had on CD) my Ubuntu partition and 40 GB data partition no longer shows up. I have over a 100 GB of free space instead.

I'll be extremely grateful For the record, I had an external drive plugged in while running testdisk.

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I tried booting with live cd, sucessfully umounted the hard drive but found I could not resize the partition. On clicking the 'edit size' button, partition manager recognised the free space before the partition but when i reduced this, the 'ok' button was greyed out. (it was not greyed out for the windows partition so I could, in theory, increase the windows partition to take up the free space but this is not what i wanted to do).

I am pretty sure that I had managed to unmount the drive correctly as the padlock symbol had dissapeared (I took the attached screenshot, which does show the lock symbol, after rebooting into my normal system).

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Here is the output of df -h:


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As you can see, I have a 20G (19G here for some reason) root partition, 8G /var, and 86G of /home. I thought this would be plenty since many recent recommendations for / are 10-15G. Now, though, 17G are used up for some reason! How is this possible? I thought a full slackware install only had about 4G of software! I don't have any music or movies or any crazy huge files that I know of, and those would be in my /home directory anyway. Is there any way I can see which files are taking up all this space?

If it's necessary to allocate more space to my / partition, is it still possible to boot up a GParted live Cd, shrink /home a bit, move some partitions to the right, and expand my root partition? I would REALLY prefer I don't have to reinstall since I just spent a ton of time setting up my system again, but if worst comes to worst ... :'-(

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