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vmu

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Registered: 2018-07-05

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Help with Gparted

Hi folks,
Here is the mess i find myself in
I wish to allocate the extra 12gb to archlinux on sda2 to sda6.How do i proceed?
Thanks

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fukawi2

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Re: Help with Gparted

First, please use code tags. Second, you can't embed images from your home directory without uploading them first (eg, to imgur.com or similar).

As for your actual question, you need to give us some more information. You seem to have a dual-book system with Windows and Arch? Which partition is Arch installed on? Regardless, you can't easily extend either of the ext4 partitions (sda2 and sda5) as the swap partition (sda6) is in the way. If you boot a live cd, you might be able to move the swap partition to the end of the drive to give yourself room to grow sda5. I'm not sure if gparted can even do that; if it can it will be a very fragile operation and prone to data loss so make sure you have a tested backup first.

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sincomil

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Registered: 2018-02-13

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Re: Help with Gparted

Your partition table type is msdos, generally msdos partition table can have only 4 primary partitions, you already have them: sda1,sda2,sda3,sda4, where sda4 is extended partition, extended partitions can have more than 4 subpartitions.

In your case:
1. you have to move sda2 right after sda1 to the unallocated space, after that step unallocated space will be after sda2,
2. then you have to move sda4 right after sda2,
3. then you have to resize sda4(extended partition type) up to the unallocated space,
4. then create new logical partition under the sda4 extended partition

PS: Do not forget to backup your data
PPS: better to move to LVM - this will make your life much easier in the future.

Last edited by sincomil (2018-07-06 09:32:21)

2ManyDogs

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Re: Help with Gparted

It is unclear to me what exactly you want to do. It looks like you are using sda2 as the root partition for your Arch install. Do you want to expand sda2 to include the unallocated space, or do you want to create a new partition with the unallocated space?