partition issues

[Colin Law]

On 25 October 2017 at 09:12, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> 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 can't expand into an existing partition. You can shrink or remove
that partition and then expand another partition into the free space.
If you want to expand sda1 then remove sda6, shrink sda2 to free up
the space at the front, then expand sda1

Colin