partition issues

[Colin Law]

On 25 October 2017 at 08:25, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
> The partition is like this
>
> sda1
> sda2
>       UNALLOCATED 6.2mb
>       sda6
>       unallocated 2.47 mb
>       sda5  linux swap
>
> Neither unallocated can be expanded into even if aligned to cylinder option
> is selected.

I thought you had removed sda6, but anyway I don't understand where is
the free space that you are trying to expand into? The unallocated
segments are tiny so there is no space to be gained there.

Colin

>
> I think this answers your question.
>
> garyk
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>> You removed sda6 so now it should look like this:
>>
>> sda1 16.04 LTS
>> sda2 extended partition
>> sda5 linux-swap
>> sda6 doesn't exist anymore, it is replaced by
>>      "regular" unallocated sectors, aka free space
>> _But_ somewhere is an "irregular" unallocated sector, not part of the
>> "regular" unallocated sectors.
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>> I don't know if actually the unallocated sector is the issue, did you
>> e.g. shrink the extended partition, after moving the other partitions,
>> to provide the unallocated space to extend the primary partition?
>>
>> Again, we need details.
>>
>> >Also I have 9.2 gigs of swap in SDA 5.  That seems excessive or even
>> >totally unnecessary.  Ok to remove?
>>
>> Yesno, but don't let us operate on two construction zones. Let's solve
>> your issue step by step.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ralf
>>
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