[SOLVED] Need help adding size to linux partition (dual booting windows 11 and arch)

[upper mantle]

everyone has been saying use gparted but i'm not quite sure what to do.

[noble ether]

@upper mantle are you in a live iso?

[upper mantle]

i dont know what you mean by live iso

I am just booted into linux right now

KDE wayland

[noble ether]

@upper mantleare you in arch right now?

[upper mantle]

yes I am

[noble ether]

@upper mantle photo please

[upper mantle]

that's where the screenshot is from

picture of what exactly?

[noble ether]

@upper mantle reboot into a live iso

[upper mantle]

as in a usb with the arch image?

dumb question but just to make sure

[noble ether]

gui would be preferred

[upper mantle]

i dont know how to do that then

because if i boot into the arch usb there is no gui only text and stuff

@noble ether can you elaborate

[noble ether]

@upper mantle try gparted iso

[upper mantle]

and how do i do that?

@noble ether ?

[noble ether]

@upper mantle this one https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-live-1.6.0-3-amd64.iso

[upper mantle]

is there a tool like rufus for arch?

[noble ether]

@upper mantle ventoy

[upper mantle]

it's an aur package and i'm not sure how to install those

[noble ether]

clone the repo

[upper mantle]

can you mention the command real quick

[noble ether]

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/ventoy-bin.git

cd ventoy-bin

makepkg -si

[upper mantle]

ok there is a crucial package for that i dont have install let me install real quick

[upper mantle]

ok i've done that

what to do now to launch ventoy

[noble ether]

@upper mantle open it

[upper mantle]

i dont see any ventoy application

[noble ether]

@upper mantle reboot

[upper mantle]

i did

so i ran git clone

and url of both ventoy and ventoy bin

and still no app

[noble ether]

pacman -Q ventoy-bin

[noble ether]

you didn't install the package

[upper mantle]

well i ran the git clone ventoy

[upper mantle]

is there something else aside from git clone i have to do?

[noble ether]

@upper mantle

[noble ether]

the other parts

[upper mantle]

what do you mean the other parts?

[noble ether]

@upper mantle

[upper mantle]

it says command not found

am i missing a package

[noble ether]

photo please

[upper mantle]

here you go

[noble ether]

that last command was wrong

makepkg -si

[upper mantle]

I'm sorry i don't have too much linux experience

[noble ether]

@upper mantle ls

photo of that please

[upper mantle]

oops

wrong one

[noble ether]

@upper mantle cd ventoy-bin

[noble ether]

makepkg -si

[upper mantle]

already did this

this is what it tells me

@noble ether

okay nvm

it worked now

[noble ether]

now open it

[upper mantle]

what does this command do exactly btw

what is it's general use

btw you can tell me if i should stop pinging you

[noble ether]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Makepkg

[upper mantle]

i see

one minute please

[upper mantle]

btw ventoy app still unavailable

I'll reinstall again

i got it

now ill install iso

[upper mantle]

@noble ether very sorry for the wait the browser took a while to download

i have the iso and ventoy

@noble ether i have installed ventoy into the usb what do i do now

[noble ether]

@upper mantle move gparted to the usb

[upper mantle]

i moved the .iso file into the usb then

[noble ether]

reboot and pick usb

[upper mantle]

alright

will it be in grub menu

or do i go into bios

[noble ether]

bios

[upper mantle]

alright i see

[upper mantle]

before i do that do you mind telling me if simply moving the iso into the usb after installing ventoy is enough?

in this manner?

[noble ether]

yes, (optional) make a folder called iso's

[upper mantle]

okay

[upper mantle]

@noble ether i’m in gparted what do i do

What boot option do i choose

Normal grub2 or memdisk mode

[noble ether]

normal

[upper mantle]

I am prompted with this screen

[noble ether]

@upper mantle first one

[upper mantle]

Alright

[noble ether]

then shrink it

[upper mantle]

Idk what that menu is

On right click i see this

[upper mantle]

And then i add to free space right

So i want 20gb

But im not sure what to imput in these values

What values do i imput so i can make 20gb of unallocated space from my windows partition

[noble ether]

change align to gb

[upper mantle]

There is only cylinder mib and none

[noble ether]

@upper mantle https://www.gbmb.org/mib-to-gb

[upper mantle]

Look i know the conversion but

Im not sure what to put in the values

Where do i put 20k mib

[noble ether]

@upper mantle first one

[upper mantle]

And what do i put in the second and 3rd one?

Ph

Ph

Oh

I can just move the slider

@noble ether i have the unallocated space what now

[noble ether]

@upper mantle photo please

[upper mantle]

@noble ether

I’ll just wait until you’re back lol

@noble ether there is a efi partition between unallocated space and linux partition

Is there a way to move it so i can resize please

[upper mantle]

I fixed it all

thank you so much for the support

[noble ether]

... solved

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[upper mantle]

so i will say for help sake that

you need to use the windows disk partition manager to allocate free space

and you need to take care of some things like deactivate pagesys and hybernation

and after that's done defrag and optimize your disk

and windows will let you partition

after that u can use gparted to move partitions and resize

thank you @noble ether

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[SOLVED] Need help adding size to linux partition (dual booting windows 11 and arch)