Resizing partition - boot problem?

centos · 2011-04-11 15:14:23

Hello everyone. I've been using Arch for three days now and like it. Problem is I installed it on a small partition and now I have only less than 1GB disk space left.
So here is my situation: I have primary partition (Windows7) and Extended partition. Extended looks like this:

[sda5 -exUbuntu][sda8 -Arch][sda7 swap][sda6 ntfs data]

So i want to delete sda5 partition (which would give me 20 more gigabytes) and resize sda5 partition to it. But:
1) I remember GParted not being capable of resizing to free space to the left side, only right side. I would give it a shot, but here comes next problem
2) deleting partition sda5 changes sda8 to sda7 and sda7 to sda6. I guess boot would fail then since these partitions are mentioned in menu.lst and also fstab.

What's the best solution for this? Maybe I could try changing sdaX in those two files and then play with those partitions, but I'm afraid it wouldn't be enough.

Thanks.

Inxsible · 2011-04-11 17:10:35

1) Delete sda5
2) Move sda6 to the left
3) Merge the unallocated space with the Arch partition.

As for the booting, use UUIDs

centos · 2011-04-11 17:22:42

So after all these operations, UUID for current Arch partition stays the same? If so, that's exactly what I needed, thanks.

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#1 2011-04-11 15:14:23

Resizing partition - boot problem?

#2 2011-04-11 17:10:35

Re: Resizing partition - boot problem?

#3 2011-04-11 17:22:42

Re: Resizing partition - boot problem?

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