Arch Linux

BurgeroG

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Registered: 2024-09-13

Posts: 1

Expand space on arch partition.

First i will just explain everything to not make confusion.
I installed arch linux, 975MB for EFI and and 8GB for arch. It was just to test, now i want to take some space from the windows partition and give it to arch partition.

tl;dr: give arch partition more space

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extra:
mmcblk0 is my hard drive, sda is my usb flash drive.
pls dont hate on meh, meh just beginer:sob:

Last edited by BurgeroG (2024-09-13 17:42:50)

mesaprotector

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Registered: 2024-03-03

Posts: 198

Re: Expand space on arch partition.

Probably the easiest way is to put gparted on a separate flash drive, boot from that, and shrink the Windows partition from the right side, expanding Linux into the free space. Don't shrink Windows smaller than the amount of data you have on it - for example, if you're using 39GB of that partition, definitely don't try to shrink it beyond 40. It would be good to back up any data you really care about before doing so, because partition is not risk-free.

There are Youtube tutorials you can find; the wiki is fairly useless for once, as it only covers the command-line version, parted. But it's fairly easy to use; the hardest part is figuring out how to boot into gparted if you've never done it before.

Also, you have so little space that this is a rare case where I'd actually say make your EFI smaller! You're very unlikely to need almost 1GB; 256MB is a more realistic minimum.

Last edited by mesaprotector (2024-09-13 19:23:23)