#[SOLVED] Resizing

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ornate blaze
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Enlarging a partition that has its right side occupied scares me too :)

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what is your partition scheme like?
can you get the output of it from a partitioning tool?

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of just lsblk -f

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also 512MB should be more than enough for the boot partition

fleet cedar
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it looks like this

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ornate blaze
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is sdb3 empty??

fleet cedar
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I dont really know what I am looking at

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I can see that sdb2 is my boot, the one that needs increasing

ornate blaze
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but sdb seems to be your windows disk.
can you do ls -al /boot to make sure

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because you mentioned your windows boot is on another partition

fleet cedar
fleet cedar
ornate blaze
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but I'm confused, because apart from /boot, that disk (sdb) includes only windows stuff

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and your ssd with your linux installation also has an NTFS partition too

dawn hemlock
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Check your currently mounted devices (idk, sanity check)

fleet cedar
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The place where it says "/windows" is my ssd with my disk C

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I am conffused now

fleet cedar
ornate blaze
dawn hemlock
ornate blaze
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but the partition scheme seen does not fit the verbal ddescription

fleet cedar
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Maybe I am wrong and did some weird things

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Tho it was not my intention

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Does this complicate things?

dawn hemlock
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Maybe I should have recommended checking fstab

ornate blaze
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well no, and resizing /boot would be easy probably, since sdb3 seems to be empty.
but your entire disk setup seems to be possibly not what you intended

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maybe we should first determine what really is on sda, sdb, nvme0, nvme1

fleet cedar
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in my device manager I see they are in different places,,, :(

fleet cedar
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I know that in nvme0 is my linux conf files

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The one called new Volume is the one that is split in 2. 700 windows and 200 Linux

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The onther 2 shouldn't matter

ornate blaze
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I have a bit of tidyness and obsession kicking in and feel like you should reinstall everything, setting up disks and partitions from scratch :D

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is this a new system?

fleet cedar
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Nope

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I had the linux dual boot for about 1 year now

ornate blaze
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So, firstly, you can just delete /boot and make a new one from scratch.
You could make it so that all Windows related stuff is on one disk.
Is the 700 on **nvme0 **the main windows path, or is it some new extra space for windows?

fleet cedar
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that 700 was new extra space

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basically there I have games

ornate blaze
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So nvme0 is the good, fast ssd, so you want your games on it?

fleet cedar
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All of them are good fast ssd

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so where it is doesnt really matter

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my main windows is on sdb4

ornate blaze
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so maybe you should dedicate nvme1 to windows, nvme0 completely to linux

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and move /boot to nvme0n1p1

fleet cedar
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I cant completly dedicate 1 drive to linux

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Because these are 1TB drives

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and I use linux for school

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I would say it would be a waste

ornate blaze
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ok.
then let's not change anything.
can you do lsblk ?

fleet cedar
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Like this?

ornate blaze
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ah shit, the empty partitions are 16MB. What is that??

fleet cedar
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I have no idea. How would I check?

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But even with that. My idea was removing from nvme0np3 to add to my boob one. Are we allowed to do that?

ornate blaze
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what is on the other ssd, nvme1n1? and on sda?
We can move /boot to one of those.

ornate blaze
fleet cedar
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the other 2 are disks that contain random windows stuff... like games :)))

ornate blaze
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so many games

fleet cedar
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My dad grew up a gamer girl :))

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This is how one of those look like

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ornate blaze
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The simplest way I would suggest is, if you can comfortably delete one of sda or nvme1, we can move /boot there and set up the rest of the disk from scratch for storing data / games.

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otherwise we might try resizing nvme0n1p3 (/), and put /boot in there.

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oh. actually, can just do it in swap.

fleet cedar
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I am listening

ornate blaze
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how much ram do you have? do you hibernate the pc?

fleet cedar
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I think I have my hibernation off

ornate blaze
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You probably don't need Swap at all

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I use no swap, 16GB RAM, never had issues

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1- Remove swap from fstab (comment it out, in case we set it up again later)
2- Delete the swap partition
3- Make new boot partition with 512MB or more if you'd like in that new space.
4- Grub or systemd-boot? mount the new boot, mkinitcpio, redo grub or systemd-boot or whatever bootloader you use.
5- (Optional) Make new swap partition in the remaining space. Set it up again in fstab.

fleet cedar
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Okay

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Spunds good

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How would I umm

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Do that

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If you say I dont need the swap

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We can forget about it

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I use grub

ornate blaze
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Gonna have 2.5-3GB empty space left, what should we do with it?

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I checked to make sure;

the ESP MUST reside anywhere in those first 2.2 TB of the disk, but there is absolutely no need for the ESP to be the first partition or reside on the beginning of the disk whatsoever.
ESP : EFI System Partition (/boot)

ornate blaze
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and you can always use a swapfile under / instead of the swap partition, if needed

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but I'm gonna clean up and go out soon :/
someone else can surely help with setting up the new boot, or I'll help later

fleet cedar
fleet cedar
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I dont know how to do any of these on my own

ornate blaze
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I can give a quick guideline right now, but cannot go into detail and help in case something does not work

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but Archwiki can help anytime

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How are you booting when you start the PC? Do you pick which device to boot from?

fleet cedar
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Yes

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with grub

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We can take a break and come back later if you want

ornate blaze
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Yep :) That would be best

fleet cedar
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okay! Have fun. Ping me when you get back

fleet cedar
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