partition issues

[Ralf Mardorf]

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On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:25:36 +0300, Gary J. Kirkpatrick 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 think this answers your question.

No, it doesn't!

1. Write exactly what gparted or what software ever you should use,
does display.

IOW for gparted, e.g.

Partition     File System   Size         Used        Unused
/dev/sda1     ext4           44.44 GiB   33.33 GiB  11.11 GiB
/dev/sda2     extended      222.22 GiB   ---        ---
unallocated   unallocated     6.20 MiB   ---        ---
[...and so on...]

2. Then describe what you tried to do and what happened, e.g.

I tried to move the extended partition to the right, but I got the
error message

Quote of the original and complete error message, IOW with English
original output, not with translated output.

If the language you are using shouldn't be English, launch gparted
or any other software from command line with LANG=C, e.g.

sudo LANG=C gparted

Regards,
Ralf