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#1 2011-06-25 15:34:04

Cpt.Marvel
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Problem with partioning

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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#2 2011-06-25 15:37:05

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Re: Problem with partioning

hmm... I think you're hosed.  Easy to backup each partition to another disk, then repartition it though.


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#3 2011-06-25 15:51:43

pckt
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Re: Problem with partioning

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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#4 2011-06-25 15:59:01

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Re: Problem with partioning

Just put /boot into / and bingo smile


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#5 2011-06-25 16:10:59

Cpt.Marvel
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Re: Problem with partioning

Hey nice,

how can I do this?

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#6 2011-06-25 16:47:19

stqn
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Re: Problem with partioning

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.)

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#7 2011-06-25 19:45:46

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Re: Problem with partioning

Convert to GPT


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