Cool!  I am glad it worked for you.  I know I have done it in the past and I was pretty sure I used gparted to do it.  I do not recall if I did it by changing the numbers in the dialog or by dragging the handle at on end of the graphical representation of the partition.  gParted is a pretty nice too;.

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 9:02 AM, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

Thanks Larry.  Finally got it to work.

It took a while to figure out how to actually do that maximizing
of the complete sda2 partition as I got an error and it failed
the first few times I tried it. (See Brian's comment further below).

But then I tried "maximizing" to only about 95% of what I thought
was available free space, and then it worked.

Joe

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Dazed_75 last wrote:
> - Select /dev/sda2 (the extended partition) and either maximize
>   its size (it can only grow to the left) or move it to the left
>   and then grow it to its maximum size
>   (whichever gparted will let you do)

***** [Joe observed: This was an important key] *****

> - select /dev/sda5 and move it to the left
> - select /dev/sda6 and move it to the left
> - select /dev/sda7 and either maximize its size (it can only grow to the
>   left) or move it to the left and then grow it to its maximum size
> By the way, I would Apply Changes after each step as a precaution.
> I've had much more success that way.

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Brian Parma last wrote:
> Oddly enough I was trying to do just this today.  I kept getting
> errors about not being able to modify my extended partition.
>
> In the end, I just used fsarchiver to backup the partition(s),
> destroyed them, recreated them the way I wanted them on the disk,
> then restored them again with fsarchiver.



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