Need help finding a good partitioner

[wasup]

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

[Man of Steel]

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.

[marcc]

GParted

[Man of Steel]

Actually, you might try QtParted.

[Ynot]

Actually, you might try QtParted. same thing both are just GUI wrappers for the libparted library one is a GTK+ front-end, one is QT

[Keresztanya]

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?

[Man of Steel]

same thing both are just GUI wrappers for the libparted library one is a GTK+ front-end, one is QT I realized this right after I posted it.