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Simon0509

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Registered: 2017-04-26

Posts: 5

Resize Root?/ Use partiotion as Storage (GPT)?

Hey guys,
so because i am very new to arch (and a little stupid)
i followed an installation guide for a MBR HDD, eventhough i have a GPT HDD.
The problem now is that i have 4 partitions:
  1. EFI 550mb
  2. SWAP 4gb
  3. Install Partition (ext4) 30gb
  4. Empty space i cant use/mount (ext4) ~270gb
So my question is, is there a way to use this fourth partition?
Maybe to expand my third partition?
I'm running out of space...

Last edited by Simon0509 (2017-04-27 17:10:50)

Lemongrass

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From: Central Europe

Registered: 2017-03-03

Posts: 59

Re: Resize Root?/ Use partiotion as Storage (GPT)?

If you boot your machine with a Linux live USB that also has Gparted, you can easily resize your install partition. And make another partition out of that empty space. You can't resize your root partition from the system that is in it.

If you use a tool like gnome-disk-utility, you'll be able to make that data partition auto-mount easily without having to edit your fstab manually.

Last edited by Lemongrass (2017-04-27 23:14:57)

WorMzy

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Re: Resize Root?/ Use partiotion as Storage (GPT)?

Mod note: not an Installation issue, moving to NC.

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seth

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Re: Resize Root?/ Use partiotion as Storage (GPT)?

The typical approach is btw. to mount the largest partition as /home since that's usually the directory holding all user data and growing fast.

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