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Funky

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From: Austin, TX

Registered: 2024-07-11

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change partition label in windows/gparted

As you probably know gparted can't resize Fat32 partitions but I needed more space on my /boot so I backed up it's contents and formated it so I can make it 4Gb instead of 200Mb and re-formatted it to Fat32 but if I'm not mistaken now I need to re-label the partition to /boot.

How exactly would I go about doing that if I only have access to gparted and windows 11?

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

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Re: change partition label in windows/gparted

I would recommend you use the "Report" button on your first post and ask the mods to move your post to Newbie Corner. Your question sounds like an X-Y problem. Why, for example, do you not have access to Arch anymore? Why not boot up the installation ISO and mount your partitions / fix your problem (whatever that actual problem is/was)? And what do you mean by "re-label" /boot? You mean the disk label? That's not used by anything Arch-related.

WorMzy

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Re: change partition label in windows/gparted

Mod note: moving to NC

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Funky

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From: Austin, TX

Registered: 2024-07-11

Posts: 2

Re: change partition label in windows/gparted

Why not boot up the installation ISO and mount your partitions

How would I go about doing that?

Also I get this when trying to go past grub:

error: no such device: device
loading linux linux ...
error: file '/vmlinuz-linux' not found.
Loading initial ramdisk ...
error: you need to load the kernel first.
Press any key to continue...

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 9,003

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Re: change partition label in windows/gparted

If you're using GRUB the /boot/ directory could have been moved to the root partition, there's no need to use a separate /boot/ partition at all with that bootloader.

If you want help fixing your system you will have to explain exactly what you did to break it. Looks like the root partition was "moved" by gparted, is that the case? The more information you give us the easier it is for us to help.

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