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[thegormley]

I have 100 gigs toward windows 7 and 150 towards Ubuntu. I would like to shrink ubuntu and make windows 7 a little bigger. It will not let me shrink Ubunto though. Please help!

[WingedPanther]

What tool are you trying to use?

[thegormley]

I've tried using gparted. I can make windows smaller but do nothing with my ext4 ubuntu.

[WingedPanther]

Are you trying to use gparted while logged into ubuntu in the partition you want to shrink?

[thegormley]

Ooooh is that why? So if I use gparted in windows 7 I can shrink ubuntu with gparted? I'm dumb.

[Alexander]

You can't resize a partition you are currently using (that is mounted). You may need to download a gparted live cd so you can resize ubuntu, or use ubuntu's install CD and partition from there so it's not mounted.

Also note: If Ubuntu is mapped after the windows, then you will need to move the whole ubuntu partition right 50Gbs so the windows partition can expand, this could be a lossy/lengthy process.

[thegormley]

Ok. So if gparted won't work in windows then how do I resize a partition with the ubuntu install cd?

[Alexander]

There's some info here: https://help.ubuntu..../HowtoPartition

I think in the installer you just enter it and one of the steps (before installing ubuntu itself) is to partition your disk, you can partition from there then exit. :)

[thegormley]

Ok so I have tried all these options and I can't figure anýthing out :/