[plug] Windows 2000 question - expanding partition

[Philippe Margot]

Here is how I would do it :
- Shrink hda3 or hda4 or move them to a another disk if available. To  
shrink you can use for example a gparted live CD  
( http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php ).
- Once you will have some free space, create a new partition under Windows.
- Move everything that you can from hda1 to the new partition, like  
software (uh reinstall...) or your documents to leave hda1 just for the OS.

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:21:14 +0800, Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com> 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.