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M440

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Registered: 2023-08-24

Posts: 30

[solved] Moving partition left towards beginning of the drive

hello,

I want to delete an ext4 partition and move arch root left towards beginning of the drive using gparted booted from USB drive. Resize the arch root afterwards.

Will this work without problems?

This is the best/only way to do this? I have to move the data?

best regards,

Last edited by M440 (2023-08-25 18:36:41)

natervance

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Registered: 2017-04-20

Posts: 53

Re: [solved] Moving partition left towards beginning of the drive

It should work as you described, thought it'll be very slow: I've done precisely this before using gparted, and it took all night on a spinning hard disk. Hopefully you won't have to wait too long on your SSD. From your picture it looks like the partitions in question are still mounted, so I assume this image is taken before rebooting into live media.

M440

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Registered: 2023-08-24

Posts: 30

Re: [solved] Moving partition left towards beginning of the drive

It should work as you described, thought it'll be very slow: I've done precisely this before using gparted, and it took all night on a spinning hard disk. Hopefully you won't have to wait too long on your SSD. From your picture it looks like the partitions in question are still mounted, so I assume this image is taken before rebooting into live media.

thank you,

yes it worked no problems,

it took ~2 minutes moving 60g and resizing the drive,

I attached the picture just for reference,

how do I mark the topic solved?/please mark it solved

M440

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Registered: 2023-08-24

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Re: [solved] Moving partition left towards beginning of the drive

BTW i decided to fix the partition order using fdisk -> expert mode -> fix partition order -> write

i rebooted and grub was in rescue mode so i had to do something along the lines

ls
set
prefix= (hd...)/boot/efi
root=(hd...)
insmod normal
normal

grub-install
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
reboot


mm@desktop:~$ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0   2.7T  0 disk 
|-sda1        8:1    0 929.3G  0 part 
|-sda2        8:2    0 930.4G  0 part 
`-sda3        8:3    0 934.8G  0 part 
sdb           8:16   1     0B  0 disk 
nvme0n1     259:0    0   1.8T  0 disk 
|-nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   476M  0 part /boot/efi
|-nvme0n1p2 259:2    0  35.4G  0 part [SWAP]
|-nvme0n1p3 259:3    0   266G  0 part /
|-nvme0n1p4 259:4    0 263.4G  0 part /mnt/g
`-nvme0n1p5 259:5    0   1.3T  0 part 

and i just see i also need to change /mnt/g mount also

Docbroke

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Re: [solved] Moving partition left towards beginning of the drive

Edit your first post and add "[solved]" to the title.

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M440

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Registered: 2023-08-24

Posts: 30

Re: [solved] Moving partition left towards beginning of the drive

Edit your first post and add "[solved]" to the title.

ok thanks