partition issues

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> > 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.
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>> ... 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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> 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.
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> garyk
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I was able to restart the computer.  However to get to the login screen
takes about 45 seconds, up from about 5 or 10 before I started all this.
The SSD drive is might fast so I must have cause some problem or another.

I added 5g of swap - I have 8 gigs of ram.  I think that should be plenty
and am not sure if it's lack would cause this problem.

Any suggestions?


thanks


garyk
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