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How does one increase the size of a partition

Asked by Harsh Singh

I want to install a lot of items on my live usb.... so i use gparted to increase the size of the partition that it boots from.... now i get a boot error. How do i tell liveusb to increase the size of the boot partition?
I dont need a lot of space in my home dir, i need it in the bin and etc...

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Harsh Singh (hisingh1) said : 		#1

I am on a hardy install as of now.
I would like to have a feature that would let you adgust the size of the drive.

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Harsh Singh (hisingh1) said : 		#2

I am on a hardy install as of now.
I would like to have a feature that would let you adgust the size of the drive.

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probono (probono) said : 		#3

liveusb is designed as a very simple tool (think of people who don't know what a partition is), so there is currently no setting to change the partition size.

What partition scheme would you want?

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Harsh Singh (hisingh1) said : 		#4

Ok, i guess i sort of get that... but can ubuntu have a live cd like http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/07/30/all-in-one-pendrivelinux-2008/ ? Basically what happens is that both the home and the system is live, Both work as one. Also, how can i edit the, partition manually, so i can change the usb to have programs i want.

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probono (probono) said : 		#5

Google for "casper-rw".

This is outside of the scope of the liveusb tool, however.
(In my tests, it was slow and unreliable, ymmv.)

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