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I am falling short of disk space on my Arch Installed partition..
[shadyabhi@ArchLinux ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30bf30be
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3039 24410736 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 3040 3163 996030 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 3164 60801 462977235 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 3164 23567 163895098+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 23568 43971 163895098+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 43972 60801 135186943+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
[shadyabhi@ArchLinux ~]$
I want to increase my disk space but the problem is that there is no unallocated disk space after sda2 and rest all is extended partition.
Also, is there a way, I can backup my full OS and restore it as it is?
Whats the smart way of doing it?
Last edited by shadyabhi (2010-06-29 12:52:16)
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It will be tedious, bu you can move all your partitions around and get some space. Use GParted Live. Better a graphical one than CLI, so you can see what you are doing.
First shrink the size of sda7, that will give you some unallocated space at the very end. Then move sda7 to the end, then move sda6 to the end, same with sda5. -- OR you can simply shrink sda5 from the front.
Then reduce the sda3 partition (Extended one) -- This iis something that I don't rbr 100%, but I think you can reduce an extended partition as well. as long as you have used ext3/4 for all partitions. JFS and XFS, AFAIK, cannot be decreased (or increased -- one or the other)
Again move the swap partition to the end. Now you will have sda1 | unallocated | sda2 | sda3.
Merge sda1 and the unallocated, by extending sda1. And there you have it
Last edited by Inxsible (2010-06-28 19:11:20)
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Thanks. That went without any data loss. Used Gparted...
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