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iGarbage5002802

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[SOLVED] dwm cant resize partition with gparted

hello brothers how can i enable the resize slider in gparted

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SimonJ

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Re: [SOLVED] dwm cant resize partition with gparted

What partition are you resizing? If it is Windows it must be shut down fully first not the hybrid shutdown. If it is Linux it must be unmounted first. Make sure you've backed up everything before you start. If you still have issues, just boot a live distro and do it from there.

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iGarbage5002802

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Re: [SOLVED] dwm cant resize partition with gparted

What partition are you resizing? If it is Windows it must be shut down fully first not the hybrid shutdown. If it is Linux it must be unmounted first. Make sure you've backed up everything before you start. If you still have issues, just boot a live distro and do it from there.

im on linux and only have 1 partition why is that i need to unmount first?

when i was on LXQT desktop it was possible to do it all normally without live boot or anything

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Re: [SOLVED] dwm cant resize partition with gparted

You cannot resize an active partition with most filesystems (incl ext4) this has absolutely nothing to do w/ the desktop environment.

lsblk -f

and link a screenshot of gparted.

One thing that actually might get in the way is that gparted likely requires an https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit … ion_agents and there's gonna be none autostarted by or with dwm.

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iGarbage5002802

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Registered: 2025-07-09

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] dwm cant resize partition with gparted

You cannot resize an active partition with most filesystems (incl ext4) this has absolutely nothing to do w/ the desktop environment.

lsblk -f

and link a screenshot of gparted.

One thing that actually might get in the way is that gparted likely requires an https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit … ion_agents and there's gonna be none autostarted by or with dwm.

im on ext4 yes, thank you i was able to download the live boot iso of gparted and do it through it