partition issues

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:36:43AM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> > On 25 October 2017 at 11:00, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
> > > Colin's heart is in the right place, but he forgot an important
> detail: sda6
> > > and sda5 are extended partitions that reside, in turn, on sda2.  So
> you can
> > > resize (presumably; I'm not sure I've ever tried this) sda6, but then
> you'll
> > > need to move sda5 to the rightward boundary, and THEN you'll need to
> resize
> > > sda2, too.
> >
> > I don't think I forgot anything. According to the information above
> > sda5 is already at the top (or right) of sda2 so cannot be moved.
> > after removing sda6 then sda5 can be shrunk (upwards from the bottom)
> > so there is no space at the front of sda5. The free space will then be
> > between sda1 and sda2 so sda1 can be extended.
>
> ... and possibly consider using GPT as the partition table format next
> time you're building a system, since it avoids having to remember all
> this nonsense!  (IMO, GPT is the single best thing about the UEFI spec,
> and it's usually - though sometimes with a bit of fiddling - possible to
> use it even on BIOS-based systems.)
>
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> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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I deleted everything other than sda1 and then was able to expand sda1.  I
will try to restart and hope all will be well.  I removed swap too.  I can
create that again if I need it.

garyk
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