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Hi,
i have a problem: I installed and configured arch on 4 primary partitions: boot, root, swap and home. During the installation I let 100GB space free for backup later on. But I forgot that I only can create four primary partitions. So what to do, to get this lost space used without reinstalling arch? My configuration is in the following order:
0,5 GB /boot
50 GB /
2,2 GB swap
300 GB /home
100 GB unused
Hope you can give me some helpfully tips.
Greetz,
Cpt.Marvel
Last edited by Cpt.Marvel (2011-06-25 15:34:26)
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hmm... I think you're hosed. Easy to backup each partition to another disk, then repartition it though.
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You could put something like gparted on a stick/disk and jig the data around and resize the partitions but I would probably just backup to another disk and go again from scratch.
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Just put /boot into / and bingo
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Hey nice,
how can I do this?
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Just delete the swap partition and then create your extended partition...
Edit: of course you can then use the 2.2 GB of your old swap to extend either / or /home. (But 50GB for /, with a separate /home, is way too big. 10 GB would probably be enough.)
Last edited by stqn (2011-06-25 16:49:57)
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Convert to GPT
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