Expanding partition to left

SilverMight · 2018-01-13 20:22:53

Hello, I'd like to remove a Windows partition and then fill the entire hard drive with my / partition - I haven't really done this before, but AFAIK I should

1. Boot in GParted
2. Delete and expand
3. chroot into my system to reinstall grub

Does this sound right? Don't want to destroy my system. Thanks for any help

olive · 2018-01-13 20:31:43

You have to use a live system to do it; I assume this is what you say by booting in gparted.

Delete the partitions you don't want and use the resize/move option of gparted by right-clicking on the partition you want to expand (be very careful to not delete the good partition). Note that the only way gparted can expand to the left is to shift the entire partition (unexpended) to the left and then expand it to the right, so this can take a long time. DON'T interrupt the process or say goodbye to your data.

If you have installed arch, you know how to install a bootloader. so redo it. This depends on how your boot your system. If you have an EFI system, it would even be not required.

Last edited by olive (2018-01-13 20:34:12)

drcouzelis · 2018-01-13 20:42:23

olive wrote:

DON'T interrupt the process or say goodbye to your data.

No, no, no, that would NEVER happen, because SilverMight has a complete backup of all data on the drive!

SilverMight · 2018-01-13 20:57:01

olive wrote:

You have to use a live system to do it; I assume this is what you say by booting in gparted.
Delete the partitions you don't want and use the resize/move option of gparted by right-clicking on the partition you want to expand (be very careful to not delete the good partition). Note that the only way gparted can expand to the left is to shift the entire partition (unexpended) to the left and then expand it to the right, so this can take a long time. DON'T interrupt the process or say goodbye to your data.
If you have installed arch, you know how to install a bootloader. so redo it. This depends on how your boot your system. If you have an EFI system, it would even be not required.

Right, that's what I thought I would have to do. Just wanted to make sure I was doing it right because I've never really had to do this.

drcouzelis wrote:

olive wrote:
DON'T interrupt the process or say goodbye to your data.
No, no, no, that would NEVER happen, because SilverMight has a complete backup of all data on the drive!

Correct

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#1 2018-01-13 20:22:53

Expanding partition to left

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Re: Expanding partition to left

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Re: Expanding partition to left

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