resizing a dual boot system

[Bipster]

I already have a dual boot system, one partition is XP and the other is Fedora 10 and I'm running out of room on my Linux partition.

How can I resize both partitions, i.e. shrink the XP one and grow the Linux one? Will Gparted work? And do I have to do anything else after using Gparted?

Any links to a "how to" would be appreciated.

Thanks
Bipster

[SlowJet]

No.
If you installed Linux on one partition;
1. You installed it incorrectly. (it need 3 (/boot, /, swap) with optional 4th /home)
2. You can't use space in front of the existing partition 83 (to wrap around the end of the f/s). That is why a Volume Manager is good. LVM can use PV segments.

SJ

[Bipster]

Sorry, I did it right, just didn't explain it correctly. I have all the correct partitions already (from GParted):

.......................File System..............Size.................Used..... ...........UnUsed..........Flags
/dev/sda1....NTFS..........................26.86GiB.... ....20.72GiB.........6.14GiB.........boot
/dev/sda2....ext3...........................196.11MiB.. ....34.19MiB.........161.91MiB.../boot
/dev/sda3....lvm2..........................10.20GiB.... .....9.1GiB..............1.1GiB...........lvm

Both OS work just fine, but I'm finding that I am using Linux more then XP, that is why I am out of hd room.

What I want to do is shrink sda1 by 4GiB, and increase sda3 by 4GiB.

When I installed F10, it took care of the XP side, informing XP of the new partition size.

Will GParted do the same thing? And take care of XP and F10 with the new sizes?

Or is there another program to use?

[SlowJet]

Well, assuming partitions can be on space anywhere.

1. Shrink the NTFS.
2. On the new disk freespace create a partion sda4 type 8e (do not format it.)
Then do these commands (run with --test first, if no errors, run without --test)
a. pvcreate /dev/sda4
b. vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sda4
c. lvextend /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 /dev/sda4
Now expand the file system (expanding can occur with mounted)
d. resize2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00


SJ