Author: alan c Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Partitions
Stephen Rowles wrote: > On 08/13/2009 01:16 PM, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
>>
>> As gparted seems not to want to allow me to shrink/move anything, do I
>> have any option but to back everything up and start again?
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>
> gparted won't let you adjust or move any partition that is currently
> mounted. Seeing as you want to adjust the root partition you will need
> to get a live CD, boot without mounting any local partitions, then use
> gparted to adjust your partitions as appropriate.
>
> But I would back up you data first anyway just in case, I have come
> across the occasional corruption issue :)
