moving partitions

[Tony Arnold]

On 27/08/14 14:23, J.L. Blom wrote:
> I have a peculiar problem with moving partitions. I have, many years ago
> made a boot partition of 100 MB as I thought that was more than enough.
> However, as ubuntu grows, the needed room on the boot partition has to
> be increased as well, resulting in the fact that it now requires > 74 MB
> and the old Linux uses at least 35 MB so I don´t have not enough space.
> OK, I booted from an USB-stick, used gParted and shrank the adjoining
> partition.
> The boot-partition is an primary partition, while the next partition,
> which I shrank, was the first partition on the extended partition. I
> ended with an unused partition of ~1 GB.
> Than I wanted to let the boot-partition grow with 1 GB. But that didn´t
> work. Gparted wouldn´t do that.
> Now I´m stuck. Can somebody explain why this primary partition won´t
> grow and how I can solve this problem?

Can you post your partition layout? The output from 'fdisk -l /dev/sda'
would do it.

Regards,
Tony.
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