repartitioning

[Jean]

Hello,

Ubuntu itself is installed on a 40 gig secondary slave harddisk.
I have a 372 gig ntfs harddisk in this machine as a primary slave.
I can use that disk fine with the ntfs drivers but would it be better if I repartition this one to use say 150 gig with the linux filesystem? What would be the advantage?

And if so, can somebody direct me to a good tutorial for this or is it easy with the right tool?

Thanks, Jean.

[Rog131]

Re: repartitioning

GParted
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application. Before attempting to use it, here is some basic background information.

A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one larger and the adjacent one smaller) The purpose of GParted is to allow the individual to take a hard disk and change the partition organization therein, while preserving the partition contents.

GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).

Documentation
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
- Resizing partitions with GParted
- Copying/Moving with GParted
- Getting free space from partition


GParted is in the repositories and there is Live CD:
GPARTED-LiveCD
http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/

The power and simplicity of GParted on a biz-card size LiveCD.

The CD aims to be fast, small in size (~50mb), and use minimal resources
to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD is based
on Gentoo-catalyst, and uses Xorg,the lightweight Fluxbox window manager,
and the latest 2.6 Linux Kernel.

FAQ: How to Partition
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3090704.0

[Jean]

Re: repartitioning

Thanks rog, gparted is installed now, it has a familiar look.
Gonna look at it tomorrow.

[cantab]

Re: repartitioning

Bear in mind repartitioning is inherently risky, especially with NTFS, so back up your data first. It may also be an idea to defragment the partition in windows (even if windows says it doesn't need defragging).

[Jean]

Re: repartitioning

@cantab

Thanks for your concern. Those ntfs drivers are not even officiallly if I recall correctly though they seem to work quite allright. But in fact I already decided to do repartitioning with a windows tool, and after defragging.

Still wondering if I should go through the trouble. As a storage medium the ntfs drive is fine.