mint partitioning error

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Dave Stevens wrote:

>I have a computer with a system disk running mint 20. I also have a
>32gb flash drive with mint 20 installed. Both boot and run ok. The
>flash drive has one big 32GB partition. I want to run gparted from
>the system disk to add a data partition to the flash drive. I run
>gparted as admin (sudo) when the flash drive is not mounted. I have
>used gparted many times satisfactorily. I'd like to have the existing
>partition on the flash drive reduced to about 10GB after which I'll
>allocate the remaining space to a data partition suitably formatted.
>
>I can't get past the part of gparted that should shrink the existing
>partition. The options I want are greyed out. There isn't a little
>lock icon beside the partition in the partition list. I'm stuck.

Is this of any use?

https://askubuntu.com/questions/30220/how-can-i-resize-an-external-usb-ntfs-partition

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