ubuntu partition expansion

[legolas]

hi,

I have dual boot vista and ubuntu 7.04. the ubuntu partition is 10 GB. can i increase it without having to reinstall either of them? if so, shud i do it from ubuntu or vista disk management?

thanks,
legolas.

[anantkhaitan]

Try GParted livecd

[Tech.Masti]

^^is it safe enough to use such a distro??

[praka123]

there are risk with partn resizing be ready with a backup.if possible.

[amitava82]

Once i tried to expand ext3 using gparted live CD but it screwed up linux installation So i had to use Partition magic.

[Tech.Masti]

How to backup linux partition?

[mehulved]

Depends on what type of backup you want to create and what distro. There are tools available too.
A nice example is sabayon. It's actually just a backup of gentoo, they have only left out the /dev directory. Then they have later added other things.
There are many shell scripts available for that too.
Also, you want incremental backups?

[amitava82]

If you want Acronis like solution then use mondorescue. It makes disk image of your linux partition and makes a bootable cd/dvd which you can use to restore.