I installed Ubuntu with 10GB of space, hoping it'd be sufficient. Needless to say, 3 months later I am out of room. I'd prefer just to extend my Ubuntu partition, but I'm already out of room on my HDD. However, I have a little less than 30GB of free space on my Windows C drive, so I was thinking I'd shrink the C drive first and then use the newly freed up space to extend the Ubuntu partition.
I tried to shrink the Windows partition in the Disk Management tool, but it wouldn't allow me to shrink it any more than 500MB. Does anyone know if this has anything to do with it being a primary partition and/or if I was trying to shrink while I was already booted into Windows? If being booted into Windows is the issue, then how'd I do it using the Disk Management tool to begin with?
I should add that I've already done a full, system image backup of my Windows. I have 3 primary partitions that are all Windows (2 of which are from Dell that I want to avoid touching). My Ubuntu install is in an extended partition, with one root partition and another for swap space.
My bigger question is if I have anything to be concerned of with this shrink/extend idea. The C drive and the Ubuntu root partition are directly adjacent to each other. Since I was having trouble with the Windows Disk Management, I was going to do everything in GParted Live. Any advice or comments would be greatly appreciated.