[SOLVED] Deleting Win. How to reorganize partitions?

eDio · 2010-11-06 11:33:58

Hi all.

I decided to wipe out my Windows installation, as I haven't boot it for several months and don't really need it.
My current partition schema on sda disk

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/disk/by-uuid/798d5bc2-dd07-4d08-b25e-dfcdb2b70af8
                      18577596  14553268   3080512  83% /
/dev/sda6              4134900   3051412    873440  78% /home
/dev/sda8              3613056   2388016   1041544  70% /var
/dev/sda9              4664632   3689272    738404  84% /usr/local/matlab
/dev/sda1             34603976  32459128   2144848  94% /media/sys
/dev/sda5             88084360  61574208  26510152  70% /media/install

Layout is approximately the following
[sda1] [sda2 [ntfs partition] [home] [/] [var] [matlab] ]

Windows is on sda1.

So, as I said I want to remove windows, and then occupy that free space.
I want to increase my / and /home and leave some space unoccupied (about 4 gigs) for future weblogic dedicated partition.
Also sda5 can be shrinked a little.

How would you suggest to reorganise my partitions?

edit:
Haven't mention the most importatnt! I would like to keep my current Arch installation alive if it is possible (I believe it is).

P.S. I have free space on another harddrive sdb, so I can move my data to that hdd while modifying sda, but would like to avoid this.

Thanks in advance

Last edited by eDio (2010-11-13 06:27:31)

BaconPie · 2010-11-06 11:42:56

SystemRescueCD -> Gparted -> Resize.

I used it to decrease home and increase roota little. Great stuff.

hume's doona · 2010-11-06 11:43:03

gparted from a live cd, delete win partition, resize the rest... double check grub menu.lst

it's slow and tedious waiting for it, but you'll have the livecd to play with

eDio · 2010-11-06 16:57:59

I want to note, that here will be one issue, after deleting win
[free space] [ntfs partition] [my linux partitions]

So I will have to move one of the partitions. But which one is better to move? Is it safe to move root partition? How to do this?

hume's doona · 2010-11-06 22:23:48

you can move it with gparted, sorry, I skipped that in my post, that's what takes up the time that I was referring to, not resizing

eDio · 2010-11-13 05:13:30

I've done Copy-Paste in Gparted to move my / and /home partition to free unallocated space over ntfs partition.

There seems to be no problems with /home, but / has grown in size. Actually after moving / from 18GB to 33GB partition, it has the same amount of free space

Does anyone know how to fix this?

P.S. btw, I've also fixed grub and fstab, and all boots just fine. There is the only issue with partition size

eDio · 2010-11-13 06:27:05

Problem solved.
The problem was in the new partition uuid.
ls'ing /dev/disks/by-uuid said, that my new sda1 has the same uuid as sda7, and sda some has no one.

To solve the problem I've generated new uuid with uuidgen, binded this uuid to my sda1 with tune2fs and changed uuid in grub. And now all is ok.

Arch Linux

#1 2010-11-06 11:33:58

[SOLVED] Deleting Win. How to reorganize partitions?

#2 2010-11-06 11:42:56

Re: [SOLVED] Deleting Win. How to reorganize partitions?

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