[nmglug] Cloning hd

[S. F. P. White]

Hey Brian,

Are you using a GParted boot disk? If you run Gparted from a Live Cd, you
should be able to resize it.

Best,
Scott

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:37 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:

> **
> Sorry for the double post but I've poked around a bit more. It looks like I
> could expand sdc2 into the unallocated space and then move sdc5 to the right
> and then shrink sdc2 to free up space next to sdc1? If I can do this all
> graphically I'll give it a shot. I really appreciate the help and I should
> know how to do this by now.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 08/17/2011 01:27 PM, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>
> Thanks Jason but this is probably more than I have confidence for doing. Is
> there a meeting tomorrow night? I can bring the laptop and drive and watch
> an expert show me how it's done! I have a vague memory of doing something
> like this for another external drive to gain the unallocated space and I
> didn't delete any partitions but eventually could move them and resize
> (which is about my skill level, unfortunately).
>
> Brian
>
> On 08/17/2011 01:18 PM, Jason Schaefer wrote:
>
> Brian
> Go ahead and delete that swap partition at /dev/sdc5 then move the sdc1
> over and recreate swap at the end of the disk you can create it at sdc5
> again, so that you won't need to change your /etc/fstab. Unless its using
> uuid's.. you might just double check your fstab when you boot up. Also you
> will need to "swapon -a" after you get fstab all sorted.
> Jason
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:47 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com>wrote:
>
>>  Hi all,
>>
>> I finally got around to cloning my hd to a larger drive and it seems to
>> have worked just fine. Now I want to resize the partition into the
>> unallocated space and that I can't figure out. I obviously need to move
>> /dev/sdc2 to the right and then expand /de/sdc1 into the freed space. I
>> can't move /sdc2 though. do I need to format the unallocated space first?
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> Here's the disk in GParted:
>>
>>
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