Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have a dualboot of windows 7 and
ubuntu. Now I want to add an extra partition in windows with the
internal partition manager. But does this hold any danger for
the existing linux partitions? I mean, can this do any harm to
my linux partitions in a way that it is wiped or something like
that? Or should I use another program like gparted?  Also, when
doing this via windows, do I only need to shrink the first
partition and then add an additional one?   share|improve this
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No it does not. So just go a head.  Modern distributions use
UUID´s to detect what partition to mount where. So its not
dependent of the partition scheme.  But yes in the old days
adding a partition would mean you changed names for partitions
possibly rendering your system unbootable until you changed the
partition names to be correct in your fstab file  share|improve
this answer +1 for mentioning the old naming convention in
/etc/fstab. Basically it does