I'm on EndeavourOS, with a Windows/EndOS dual-boot and my root partition is full, so I wanted to assingn more space to it. I have 4 gb of unallocated space and I'm in Gparted on live usb and was wondering if it was safe to move my swap partition to the left and move my root partition also to the left and resize it (make it bigger by those 4 unallocated gb) Is that safe to do without data loss? Or will that mess things up?
#[SOLVED] Is it safe to move/resize root?
junior widget
It will take forever
vast wind
My root partition is 10gb
junior widget
Oh
vast wind
That's why I wanna make it a little bit bigger
junior widget
Should be fine then
vast wind
but to do that I need to move it first, but is that safe or will things get messed up?
junior widget
Should be safe
If things get messed up, (not related to data loss)
Then it's an easy fix afterwards
vast wind
I won't loose my data doing this right?
neat barn
You should make a backup if you care about the data anyway
vast wind
I don't really have data I care much about, I just don't wanna spend time reinstalling everything
Ok, so I'm moving swap and root to the left now
and will make root bigger by 4gb
I hope everything goes ok
I got this error when trying to move root
what should I do?
smoky jasper
hm
vast wind
Oh I fixed I think, by moving and resizing at the same time
neat barn
You might want to do it from the live environment instead of the installed system
Oh nvm you got it
vast wind
Im in live enviroment
smoky jasper
they are on a live environemnt
neat barn
Ok
smoky jasper
you can figure it out by seeing that the parititon op is resizing is not mounted as listed in gparted
vast wind
that's what it looks like now
smoky jasper
aight, I assume you have applied operations?
vast wind
that's what it looks like now
I should be ok to apply those changes right?
smoky jasper
yes, you can trust parted when it comes to linux filesystems like ext4
vast wind
ok, thank you all people! I will hit apply now
Yay! Everything worked!!! Now I have a whopping 14gb for my root
neat barn
Yay! Everything worked!!! Now I have a whopping 14gb for my root
enough for Linux
... solved
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vast wind
I have a 64gb ssd and like 40 gigs are taken up by Windows :///
neat barn
I have a 64gb ssd and like 40 gigs are taken up by Windows :///
You could try shrinking windows or installing one to an external drive
vast wind
You could try shrinking windows or installing one to an external drive
wdym by shrinking windows?
junior widget
Windows disk management can shrink windows partition
neat barn
^ That
vast wind
Ah that, already did that, but can't make it any smaller, so 14gigs it is
[SOLVED] Is it safe to move/resize root?
neat barn
You could also use an external drive for Arch
It’s much harder to do with windows, but possible
vast wind
You could also use an external drive for Arch
hmm, I will look into that, thx
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