partition issues

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:12:30 +0300, Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
>I am trying to expand into sda6.  I want o eventually join sda6 and
>sda1 to get the most space.  Of course I can use sda6 now by mounting
>it and then storing to it.  Not a huge problem but we should be able
>to remove those itty bitty unallocated areas.
>
>
>Partition     File System   Size         Used        Unused
>
>sda 1            ext 4            84 gig       75          9
>sda2             extended     27 gig      -              -
>  unallocated                      6.5 mb
>  sda6            ext4            17.75 g  457 mb   17.3g
>  unallocated                      2.47
>  sda5           linux swap    9.32g       0            9.32g
>
>Hope that is not to hard to read.
>
>I'l figure out how to send in plain text.

You still didn't provide the information I was asking for.

"I'm trying to expand into sda6"?

Describe the actions you are doing, probably using gparted.

I try to delete sda6, but I get this error message "Full text of the
error message".

If you want to extend sda1 with the space from sda6, you first need to
delete sda6. After that the space above and below sda6 will become one
unallocated, but usable space, including the freed space of the deleted
partition. After that you could continue to shrink the size of the
extended partition and so on and so on, at last you could resize sda1
at the right site.

Regards,
Ralf