moving partitions

[J.L. Blom]

On 27/08/14 16:30, Colin Law wrote:
> On 27 August 2014 14:23, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> 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?
> When you have an extended partition that you wish to shrink you must
> first shrink and or move the partitions within that extended partition
> (so that there is space inside the extended partition) then shrink the
> extended partition itself so that there is room to extend the adjacent
> primary partition.  From your description it sounds as if you have
> freed up space at the front of the extended partition, but it is still
> inside that partition.  You must therefore shrink the extended
> partition so that the free space is outside the extended partition.
>
> Colin
>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Joep
>>
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  Brandon Tony, Thanks for the advice but I think Colin is on the right 
track that I forgot the extended partition also have to be shrunken.
I can not do it immediately as it is my normal workstation where the 
work has to be done and I have also some work to do. But later today I 
will surely try to do ot and let you know the results. (hopefully from a 
14.04 LTS system).
Joep