Modifying Your Partitions

This article shows how you can modify the partitioning of your Linux system with GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) without losing data. This includes resizing partitions (enlarging and shrinking), moving partitions on the hard drive, creating and deleting partitions, and even modifying filesystem types. GParted is a free partition editor available as a desktop program and also as a Live-CD. It supports the following filesystems: ext2, ext3, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, reiserfs, reiser4, ufs, xfs, and even ntfs (Windows).

Take a look HERE.

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Moving My Documents Folder

Do you want to change the default location for the My Documents folder?

If you want to the My Documents folder to a different location (for example, a different drive so that if you have to reinstall the OS, it will still be preserved), it’s a simple operation. The proper way to change the location of the My Documents folder is to change the target location, like this:

Right click My Documents on the Start menu
Select Properties.
Click the Target tab.

Type the path to the folder where you want to move My Documents,
or click Move,
select the folder where you want to store your documents and
click OK.

You can create a new folder by clicking Make New Folder.

In the Move Documents dialog box, click yes to move your existing documents to the new folder

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