partition issues RESOLVED

[Colin Law]

On 25 October 2017 at 17:49, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 25 October 2017 at 17:30, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> ...
>> >> 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
>> >>
>> > ...
>> > I no longer have an sda2, just sda1 and swap.
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>> I know that, you said that after removing sda6 you were unable to make
>> use of the space. I was asking whether you shrank sda2, if you did not
>> then that is why you could not make use of the free space. Nothing to
>> do with any small empty areas.
>>
>> Colin
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> I erred in saying I do not have an sda2.
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> I deleted everything that was on sda2.  Then I only had an sda1 after
> expanding sda1 to use the entire disk.  Then I added a swap, which gave me
> an sda 2.
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> So I do not ever shrink the current sda2.  Does that clear it up?

If you had not shrunk sda2 then, as I said, that explains why you
could not expand sda1.

Colin