[plug] Windows 2000 question - expanding partition

[Richard Meyer]

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 21:21 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> 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.

As I said I can move hda2 and hda3 elsewhere, but my problem was getting
the hda1 (W2K) expanded to full size. 

Any ideas?
> 
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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>