disk space expansion

[Colin Law]

On 20 February 2013 12:22, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> I have a little problem and actually a little ashamed to ask as I can't
> remember how to solve it.
> The situation:
> I have in my main workstation a sata disk of 1 Tb where approx. 450 GiB is
> unallocated. The division is:
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *        2048      194559       96256   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2          196606   996286463   498044929    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5          196608   195506175    97654784   83  Linux
> /dev/sda6       195508224   781443071   292967424   83  Linux
> /dev/sda7       781445120   976754687    97654784   83  Linux
> /dev/sda8       976756736   996286463     9764864   82  Linux swap
> The problem:
> I have only 1 primary partition of 100Mb (/dev/sda1) where /boot is mounted.
> Now as currently 100 MB for a boot sector is rather small I need to expand
> it. As you can see ,however, there is no room for continuous expansion as
> /dev/sda2 starts already 2048 sectors further.
> There must be a way to do it but I don't know. I hope somebody here can help
> me out.

I think you have to boot off the live CD or a gparted CD and shrink
and move the partitions inside sda2 so that there is a gap at the end
of sda2.  Then you can shrink sda2 and move it up, then expand sda1.

Backup first of course.

Colin