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Bednar

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Registered: 2015-09-19

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[SOLVED]Resizng a partiton with Gparted

Hi all,

I assigned ~50 GB space for my arch install and I would like to increase it as I want to move a 15GB steam game to my SSD drive.
My partition layout is as on the screen below:

https://i.imgur.com/Hj5FNh9l.png

/dev/scd5 is the partition I want to add the 33,28GB unallocated space to; however, I tried both from live system as well as live CD of Linux Mint and the space is not available.  Any ideas?

Also, anyone can tell me what /dev/sdc3 is?

Thanks!

Last edited by Bednar (2017-07-13 19:22:44)

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED]Resizng a partiton with Gparted

Your partition is inside an extended partition. A partition that resides in an extended partition cannot use space outside of an extended partition. You can create a primary partition in that space, or you can try resizing the extended partition. However, make sure you have good backups before messing with *any* partitions.

Also, anyone can tell me what /dev/sdc3 is?

It's your system, if you don't know what a 450MB ext4 partition is, we've got no chance. Mount it and see what it contains, maybe it'll remind you what it is for.

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Bednar

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Re: [SOLVED]Resizng a partiton with Gparted

Hi,

Thanks. It has been along time since I used windows...

Isn't the highlighted unallocated space inside the estended partition? Sorry, you confused me there - still not sure why the highlighted space cannot be used.

Last edited by Bednar (2017-07-13 18:46:11)

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Re: [SOLVED]Resizng a partiton with Gparted

To extend a partition the free space has to be next to it, your swap partition is in the way.

I'd probably just delete the swap, extend the partition (leaving enough free space for a new swap) and then recreate your swap.

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Bednar

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Re: [SOLVED]Resizng a partiton with Gparted

and thaT's what I did. Thanks, it worked.

It did do something to boot,m though. I had to reinstall grub.