Dear all,
I am a newbie to linux. I have installed Suse linux 11 and i want to know how i can resize my existing partition to accomodate more space. I am currently having a dual boot system with windows and linux. My hdd is 160 gb and i have linux on one partition. I want to make one partition of windows to be used as linux partition. Please can anyone tell me how to attach one partition,windows partition(Drive G) as linux partition.
Regards,
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It is not quite clear to me what you want.
First you ask ho to resize (from the rest of your post I think: increase) your root partition (that is the one mounted on /).
Then you ask how to use a partition (now used for windows) from Linux.
When you want to do the last, I think there is the next question: do you want to use this partition both when you boot from Windows and from Linux or just for Linux.
In the first case search on the forums for mounting NTFS partitions, there are many threads on this.
When you only want it to use from openSUSE (AND THUS WANT TO DELETE ALL DATA ON IT AT THE MOMENT), use YaST > System > Partitioning (and say Yes). Now find the partition you want to use (YaST will most probably say that it contains a Windows file system like NTFS).
Select this partition and click Edit.
Now choose to Format it as an ext3 fs and choose a suitable mount point (the place where you want it mounted). Finish.
When my story is not clear to you or you are in doubt and afraid of destroying things, post the output of
sudo fdisk -l
and
cat /etc/fstab
here, so we can see how your partitioning is at the moment.