[solved]resize Fat32 partition (extend)

jewnersey · 2012-03-06 16:39:27

I am trying to extend out my external harddrive so its 1 partition , there is currently ~200GB unallocated, adjacent and to the right of the primary fat32 partition (which i thought was the criteria for extending/growing) but gparted cant resize, and windows disk management cant extend (greyed out).

what am i doing wrong here.....

Last edited by jewnersey (2012-03-06 19:21:41)

karol · 2012-03-06 16:56:33

Why isn't gparted working? Have you tried the liveCD?

Avant-texte · 2012-03-06 17:01:54

What exactly is happening when you try?

Does it not let you even try expanding the partition or does it fail when you try to commit the changes?
Is the Fat32 partition mounted when you're trying to modify it?

EDIT: For clarity, I'm asking about what is happening when you try with Gparted.

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jewnersey · 2012-03-06 17:02:31

havnt tried live. just using gparted within my environment as root.

Ill give the liveCD a shot

edit:

when i choose "resize" and then try to extend the partition, it doesnt allow it. i can move the paritition as a whole, but cannot increase (or decrease) the size

not mounted

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Avant-texte · 2012-03-06 17:06:45

That is odd. If you can move it, you should be able to resize it.

Try the live cd if you can, so we can rule out other environmental issues.

Gusar · 2012-03-06 17:20:57

The only code Linux had for resizing fat32 was in parted-2. It was removed in parted-3, leaving Linux without the ability to resize fat32.

But, now there's parted-3.1 which has a new library, libparted-fs-resize, adding back fat32 resizing ability. However it seems gparted will need to be updated to use this new library. Using parted on the commanline should work though.

Avant-texte · 2012-03-06 17:22:56

Gusar wrote:

The only code Linux had for resizing fat32 was in parted-2. It was removed in parted-3, leaving Linux without the ability to resize fat32.

Shit, they pulled that out in 3 too?

karol · 2012-03-06 17:25:07

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php#libparted led me to believe all three operations (grow, shrink, move) would be affected.
OP says he can move it ...

Edit:

Avant-texte wrote:

Gusar wrote:
The only code Linux had for resizing fat32 was in parted-2. It was removed in parted-3, leaving Linux without the ability to resize fat32.
Shit, they pulled that out in 3 too?

They wrote: "Native available through libparted (versions < 3.0). For example libparted-2.4."

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jewnersey · 2012-03-06 17:32:26

well everything worked fine from the LiveCD.

the.ridikulus.rat · 2012-03-06 18:28:45

You need to use gparted from git and parted 3.1 to use the new resize library. Related info http://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/com … e4e8cec986 .

karol · 2012-03-06 18:30:32

jewnersey wrote:

well everything worked fine from the LiveCD.

I guess you can mark it as solved then.

jewnersey · 2012-03-06 19:22:05

Done. I always forget

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