[plug] Windows 2000 question - expanding partition

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On 22/06/06, Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> My desktop PC was set up a few years ago, for Win98SE and Linux Dualboot
> (actually about 5 different distros), but I have since upgraded to
> Win2000 (on the Windows side), and the original partition is waaaaay too
> small at under 3GB, and I need to allocate more space.

Ugh, yuck...

> The output from fdisk is:
>
> > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1   *           1         366     2939863+   b  W95 FAT32
> > /dev/hda2             367         494     1028160   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> > /dev/hda3             495        1769    10241437+  83  Linux
> > /dev/hda4            1770        9729    63938700    5  Extended
>
> Now I can quite easily move the swap partition elsewhere, as well as the
> hda3 partition, but how do I get the original W2K partition expanded. I
> really rather not go through all the fun and games of reinstalling the
> stuff I need to do my work on.

I have heard it is possible to run with no swap, and some people find
it faster in some cases to do so. I think it was the Gentoo forums
where I saw some people doing that, give that a quick search.

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