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Re: [LUG] Resizing a partition

 

On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Brad Rogers wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:50:48 +0000 (GMT)
Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Gordon,

I think running gparted might help, but you might have to boot the

Using gparted, it's possible to move a partition, and increase or
decrease its size(1).  There's no need to worry about start positions,
etc. as gparted will take care of all that for you.  Of course, all the
usual warnings about having backed up any and all data first still apply.

laptop off a recovery CD with gparted installed and run it from there.

Quite so, as (AFAIAA) any (re)partitioning tool will not work on a
mounted partition.

You can change paritions, etc. on live systems. You'll also shoot yourself in the foot if not careful too.

Gordon

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