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CaptainCool:
I have an extra 5 gig partition on my hdd that has nothing on it. I want to combine it with my Linux partition. any one know how to do this??

rtgwbmsr:
You wanna combine it?

If it's a different partition on the same drive:
You could resize the partition in most Linux installers. Write the partition, and quit. That's the easy way.

If you have partition magic, you could use that and pray all goes well.

The hard(er) way(s):
http://home.attbi.com/~dckrinke/jan_02_linux.html
http://web.gnu.walfield.org/mail-archive/linux-doc/2000-August/0002.html


If it's on a completely different drive:
I dunno if this can be done

[ October 25, 2002: Message edited by: The_Muffin_Man/B0b ]

CaptainCool:
Yeah it's on the same hdd and I already tried to use the installer to write it but it gave me an error of "to many partitions" or somthing like that.
I have used partition magic before on windows and fooked it all up so I don't think ill be using that prog for awhile.

Stryker:
in fdisk (linux) you could delete the second partition, and change the ending cylinder of the first partition to where the last of the second was at. that should work (although i'd backup your stuff just in case)

CaptainCool:

quote:although i'd backup your stuff just in case)  
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That's probably what I'll be doing anyway and just reinstallin Linux, that should fix it all up

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