Partition disk

[past crag]

I'm using arch only how can i partition my disk

[errant whale]

parted,fdisk,cfdisk,sfdisk,gdisk,cgdisk,sgdisk

[robust coral]

yeah, there's tonnes of tools

gparted is good for most things

[past crag]

will i need to boot into arch iso to do that?? @errant whale @robust coral

[errant whale]

yes or any environment or your own system (as long as it doesnt hinder the rootfs) tbh

[past crag]

my arch install wont be effected right?

[errant whale]

yes if youre careful

[past crag]

can u send some steps how to do that

after opening cfdisk

[errant whale]

the steps are
is to not touch your installation's partitions

[past crag]

i only have 2 partition rn, is there anything i can do?

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 476.94 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors
Disk model: HFM512GDJTNG-8310A
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: D1FDFAA2-B489-4893-8D8B-67157E2D015F

Device           Start        End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1    2048    1048575   1046528   511M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 1050624 1000214527 999163904 476.4G Linux filesystem

[errant whale]

but if your installations paritions uses everything then youll have to resize it
im too lazy to teach you how to do it in a terminal so im just gonna say
use gparted

either from gparted live
or from a live environment that has it
like mint or ubuntu livecds

[past crag]

i dont understand what u mean

[errant whale]

what i mean is to use gparted
since it's gui

download mint iso
flash it into your usb
boot into that usb and open gparted
then resize and partition your disk

[past crag]

is there a way to do that with win iso?

coz im gonna install win after that so... it'll be less work

[errant whale]

no
windows doesnt support filesystems on linux
so it cant resize their underlying filesystems

[past crag]

@errant whale is it ok to install gparted in arch and use that?

[inner wind]

You can use gparted live ISO

And even if you install gparted on arch, you need to unmount all partitions

[errant whale]

yeah
but youre not able to do much
unless you use btrfs
cus any filesystem other than btrfs doesnt support online shrinking

[inner wind]

Make a ventoy usvt then copy gparted live to it

.aw ventoy

[abstract aspen]

Arch Wiki: Ventoy

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ventoy

[inner wind]

.aw partitioning

[abstract aspen]

Arch Wiki: Partitioning

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning

[past crag]

https://gparted.org/liveusb.php#linux-method-b this?

[inner wind]

I mean.. There's literally a download link there

[past crag]

@inner wind how to resize in gparted cli?

@errant whale

i booted into gparted live usb

in cli mode

coz X wasn't working

[errant whale]

gparted has a cli?

does it just use parted? or no

[past crag]

how can i know that

[errant whale]

could you show me what the cli looks like

[past crag]

i ran the command parted it says
GNU Parted 3.5
Using /dev/sda

[past crag]

no, its on other laptop

and i dont have any phone

prompt says root@debian:/#

parted started

so i used the resize command and now the system is not booting up

[errant whale]

oh iy's just a normal cmdline

[past crag]

yes

[errant whale]

im too tired to tell you command by command rn
so id just recommend installing mint iso
and open gparted from there

[past crag]

the system is broken already

[errant whale]

fuck

[past crag]

ig theres no way to resize boot partition

[errant whale]

oh bruh
did you just do that
cus if you do that
youll have to reinstall your bootloader

[past crag]

anyways now i know