Need help finding a good partitioner

So a long time ago I dual booted my computer to run ubuntu and windows, but I've really only been using windows since I got off my windows-hating high horse and realized ubuntu didn't have a lot of really necessary things I needed (photoshop, itunes, etc.). Anyways, I alloted way too much space for ubuntu and gparted won't let me make the ubuntu partition smaller and make the windows one bigger (I've been running off of less than a gig of hard drive space). Does anyone have any recommendations for a partitioner? Preferably one that I can just burn to a disk and is really user friendly (i.e. graphical user interface, etc.).

Thanks,
~ Alex

I personally usually just use GParted, myself, but I have heard that Partition Magic is a good option.

When I ran into the same problem as you some time ago, I just used the Ubuntu Live CD to delete the Ubuntu partition altogether, then rearrange things so I could add another Windows partition and a much smaller Ubuntu partition, then re-installed Ubuntu. I didn't have anything of value saved on Ubuntu.

GParted :)

Actually, you might try QtParted.

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Originally Posted by Man of Steel

Actually, you might try QtParted.

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same thing
both are just GUI wrappers for the libparted library
one is a GTK+ front-end, one is QT

If Gparted isn't letting you resize it, don't try and force it to resize with something else, you'll fuck it up. I did that once when I dual booted, and since Gparted wouldn't let me give Ubuntu more space, I used some Windows program and forced it to, and I couldn't boot into GRUB anymore.

When you installed Ubuntu, did you choose the "install side-by-side" option, or did you manually set the partitions?

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Originally Posted by Ynot

same thing
both are just GUI wrappers for the libparted library
one is a GTK+ front-end, one is QT

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I realized this right after I posted it.

There's a good chance that if Gparted don't want to resize a partition, it's cause you're using it. If so you could try to download an ubuntu live CD, install Gparted to RAM (just open a shell and type 'sudo apt-get install gparted' or something) and try again. I've used that to resize a partition on my laptop, that didn't work directly from the OS.

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Originally Posted by khh

There's a good chance that if Gparted don't want to resize a partition, it's cause you're using it. If so you could try to download an ubuntu live CD, install Gparted to RAM (just open a shell and type 'sudo apt-get install gparted' or something) and try again. I've used that to resize a partition on my laptop, that didn't work directly from the OS.

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I think the LiveCD has gparted on it already. You could also try using the LiveUSB function with Unetbootin and just install it to the flash drive, if it's not already on the LiveCD.

Or use BackTrack instead of Ubuntu, as it has far better tools in the LiveCD.