partition issues RESOLVED

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25 October 2017 at 16:19, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <
> garyartista at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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                                       [
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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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Deleting everything in sda2 inc swap did the trick.  For some reason
> leave
> > swap there left that small space that was preventing the expansion of
> sda1.
>
> Did you shrink sda2 up to the start of the swap partition? If not then
> that was the cause. However there is no need for a swap partition
> anyway, use a swapfile instead. See
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq
>
> >
> > Coming to the login screen was quite slow, where you enter your password.
> > If that persists I will add swap.
>
> That will not be anything to do with swap, assuming you have a
> reasonable amount of RAM.
>
> Colin
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I no longer have an sda2, just sda1 and swap.
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