I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

[Snowhog]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

Okay, so /dev/hda2 is your root partition.

Were/have you been attempting the use of GParted from a LiveCD or from within your booted system? In order to manipulate partitions, you have to do so without having them mounted, which is the case when you actually boot.

You will be able to do what you were attempting if you boot from a GParted LiveCD.

[Kouy]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

So in other words I need to go out and buy some blank cds?

[Snowhog]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

A single CD is all you need. GParted is only about 50Mb. You want to download version 3.4.10 here (there are reported problems with version 11). Once you have the .iso file downloaded, you can use k3b to burn it to CD.

[Kouy]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

Well thanks for the help but I guess I'm at kind of a standstill for now until I can get to a store.

[Snowhog]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

You have an option if you have the Kubuntu LiveCD, which does have GParted on it. You can boot into the LiveCD and run it's GParted.

[Kouy]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

I'm still not quite understanding what is so much better about the Kubuntu live cd's Gparted than the Ubuntu's live cd's Gparted.

[Snowhog]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

I'm assuming you're using Kubuntu, as you are posting in the Kubuntu Forums. If however, you are using Ubuntu and have the Ubuntu LiveCD, that's fine. The point is simply this: In order to manipulate partitions with GParted, you have to do so without those partitions being mounted - you can't boot into the partition you intend to manipulate.

If you have the Ubuntu LiveCD, then use it and run Gparted.

[Kouy]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

Well yes, you see I do use KDE, but I still have the same Ubuntu live cd from a few months back that I originally got then after I installed Ubuntu I switched over to Kubuntu. The live cd was what I was running all that time and I did have the partition unmounted when I was using Gparted. I just realized that I miss understood what you meant by "checking" I thought you meant checking it like as in a check box, or in Gparted the lock(mount). Blegh. I'll rerun that when I get back onto the live cd which I just finally got off of and signed onto my Windows side.

[Snowhog]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

One of the downsides of communicating in writing, is the lack of tonal inflection, which helps us convey, and to understand, what is being said.

[Kouy]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

Also the fact that I've been awake for around 30 hours and my comprehension level is running at about 20% couldn't help either.

This time all it said was, "fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)"

[Snowhog]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

My bad! :P You need to type the command as:

sudo fsck -AR

[Kouy]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

It says exactly the same thing with the sudo. "fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)"

[Snowhog]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

Again, 'slap myself in the head!' You only have one partition - /dev/hda2 - which contains your root file system. So you aren't going to be able to force a file system check while you are actually booted into your system. :P See, you aren't the only one who is suffering a comprehension problem.

GParted complained that 'errors' were present on /dev/hda2. I actually doubt that. But, you need to ensure that there aren't, and that means forcing a file system check. You can do that by booting into your Ubuntu LiveCD. When you are at the desktop, open a console and type the following commands:

cd /
sudo mkdir tmp/hda2
sudo mount /dev/hda2 /tmp/hda2
sudo fsck /tmp/hda2

In this, we aren't actually mounting the root file system - just the partition - so the fsck command should run just fine and check the indicated partition.

[Kouy]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

"fsck.ext2: Is a directory while trying to open /tmp/hda2

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>"

Well wouldn't you know it, another error.

[Snowhog]

Re: I'm in a weird position and don't even know where to start.

Okay. Let's ignore this attempt. When you boot into your system normally, a fsck is always performed on the root file system. So, if there were any errors, they would be identified and fixed prior to completing the boot process, or you would receive an error message and the boot process would not complete. I'm assuming that you are able to boot into your system without any problems.

I guess that at this point, I'm at a loss as to what else I can suggest, except to download/burn the GParted LiveCD as I previously posted.

The process of resizing your /dev/hda2 partition and creating an equal (or larger) partition from the unallocated space with GParted are the two steps you need to accomplish first. It is a simple (supposed to be, and was for me when I did it) matter then of selecting the partition and telling GParted you want to move it to the new partition. As I said, I did this myself, on my existing system. In fact, I did it by moving the partition to a second HD (USB at that), and had absolutely no problem doing so. So, I know it can be done.