[Tfug] gparted problem SOLVED!!!

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

On Tue, December 22, 2009 1:07 am, earljviolet at deserthowler.com wrote:
> I have a hard drive that I used for testing some distributions.  As some
> distros have some very strong ideas about partitioning the final
> partitioning looks like this:
>
> | sda1   |  sda5         | sda2            |  sda3   |
> | boot   |  Ubuntu 9.10  | Ubuntu 8.02     |  Swap   |
>
> Of course, sda5 is in sda4.
>
> I cleared sda2 which is now unallocated.  I tried to expand sda5 into the
> space formerally occupied by sda2.  gparted is unable to do this.  Does
> anyone know if this is because sda5 is a logical partition and sda2 was a
> primary partition?

I got the latest version of gparted.  It allowed me to resize sda4 and
then sda5.  For some reason the 0.2.x-x version didn't allow that.  They
changed the blue on black screen colors.

Earl