I'm new to Linux. I've installed Ubuntu 10.10 from Windows 7. It's not in Virtual PC, it is independent. It uses a virtual drive in c:, I have chosen it to be 10 Gb.Now I want to increase the size of this drive. How to do this? I've configured the system for PHP MySQL and installed a lot of software and fixed wireless connection problems a lot of things i don't want to loose these things and start troubling again.I heard of backups, but I think it will take too long. Is there any other simple and fast way?
Ubuntu 10.10 installed from windows 7: how to expand drive?
ubuntu;hard disk;wubi
In other words, you're using Wubi, right? As far as I know, it is currently not possible to resize a Wubi installation of Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10.What you can do is add another virtual disk and mount it on /home or /srv, wherever you need room. There are instructions in the Wubi guide. In a nutshell: download the wubi-add-virtual-disk script, and run the following command in a terminal (the number is the size of the new virtual disk):sudo sh wubi-add-virtual-disk /srv 20000I recommend moving your installation to a real partition. It'll be less hassle in the long term. In your situation, the route I recommend is:Boot an Ubuntu 10.10 installation CD/USB, and perform a quick installation on a separate partition. Don't bother configuring anything.Boot your existing Wubi installation. Mount your new direct-to-partition installation. Let's call the mount point /media/new. Open a terminal and run the following commands to overwrite the new partition with your existing data from the Wubi installation, and set up the bootloader for the new partition.cd /media/newcp etc/fstab /var/tmp/fstab.newrm -rf *sudo cp -ax / .chroot .update-grubgrub-install /dev/sdaOpen both /media/new/etc/fstab and /var/tmp/fstab.new in an editor. In each file, there is a line with a single / in the second column. Replace the line in /media/new/etc/fstab with the one from /var/tmp/fstab.new.Reboot. You should now be in the new installation. Make sure everything is ok, then you can remove the Wubi files on the Windows partition.Keep a bootable Ubuntu CD/USB at hand, in case something goes wrong.Whatever you do, make backups. Making backups is the only way not to lose data.