[Klug-general] Gparting an active sda to install a 2o OS...

[Karl Buckland]

Hi Alex,

No, you can't resize a partition while it's mounted, so you'll need to
boot off of another device.

Karl


On 11 May 2010 17:20, Alex Layfield <alex at alexlayfield.force9.co.uk> wrote:
> Ok ok, but I didn't have an XP cd on me @ the time of install, it's only a testing machine, & thought I'd just format the drive to install l8r...
>
> Zotac-Ion, Atom N330 (dual 1.6), 2Gb, 40Gb Intel SSD.
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> Is there any way of using gparted to create a secondary (2o) partition on my fully partitioned sda for a dual boot?
>
> Could do it from LiveCD, but just wanna know if that's absolutely necessary?
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