[plug] ubuntu 8.10 won't shutdown

[Adam Hewitt]

Hi Innis,

Download the Gparted boot cd and make your partition changes using
that. Its similar to Partition Magic under windows, but actually
works.

You would obviously need to move your /usr mount point into / and I
would suggest backing up any data that you want to keep before doing
it as changing partition sizes is rather invasive.

Adam.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Innis Cunningham <innisc at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
> I downloaded Ubuntu 8.10 today and installed it only to find that it won't
> shutdown.Is anyone else experiencing  this problem?.
> When the install finished and it ask for a restart the computer just hung.
> The only way to shut down was to do a hard reset.
> After that 8.10 booted ok but when I go to shutdown the computer once again
> just hangs.By doing ctrl+alt+f1 and then ctrl+alt+f7 it seems it is hung on
> shutting down alsa and the only way to get control again is to do a hard
> shutdown
> once again.So I have installed 8.04lts which seemed to load and run fine.But
> I have
> not tried to shut it down yet.
> A second question if I may.The hard drive that I was using for the above had
> three partitions
> on it plus a swap partition on it.They being root,home and usr.Under the new
> setup I just want
> two partitions  root and home.But by deleting the usr partition I don't seem
> to be able to get
> that space back for adding to the home partition.This is using the
> partitioner in the Ubuntu
> installer.Is there away to get the space back short of completely
> repartitioning the drive.I don't
> wish to have to do this as it will destroy all the data I have on the home
> partition and I don't
> want to do that unless there is no other option.
> Thanks for any help you can give.
>
> Cheers
> Innis
>
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