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How to increase size of root.disk of my wubi installation

Asked by William Pabon

I installed Ubuntu 11.04 using the Windows Installer (wubi). Now, I need to increase the space for the ubuntu root.disk. Is there away to do that? Thanks for the help.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=777797

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#2

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#3

How did you solve the problem? The reason why I ask is that the thread referenced offers a number of confused options. If you used LVPM then it will have removed grub2 and replaced it with grub legacy. This will eventually be a problem.

If you did use LVPM, please give the output of: grub-install -v
If it says 0.97 then you have grub legacy and you need to reinstall grub2.

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#4

bcbc:

Actually, I didn't use the solution suggested in the thread. I wanted to make the Linux portion of my disk bigger than the one occupied by windows (which is the host on a wubi installation), and concluded that it was more practical to create a different partition for Linux on my disk. That way I wouldn't have the hassle of dealing with virtual disks and problems with grub.
wp

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#5

Okay, great, thanks for the feedback.