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I ran through these steps, but didn't apply them, on the live cd and
moving the swap partition throws a warning that the disk may not
boot. Apparently the same steps as Jason mentioned to restoring
fstab settings, etc. fix that problem if it happens so this seems
like a way to attempt it at least and be no worse off. BTW, the disk
is now an external drive so if I lose it it's no big deal to clone
my laptop drive onto it again and start over...I think!<br>
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On 08/17/2011 05:44 PM, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
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I googled here and there and found a post of the exact same issue
and here's the resolution. I actually considered this after
booting the gparted cd and seeing I could try it but it would have
been conjecture otherwise on my part. Does this look reasonable
rather than deleting and recreating the swap partition?<br>
<br>
<i>"Ok, So I got it figured out. Here's the screenshot anyway and
I'll tell you what I did in case anyone else runs into a similar
issue.<br>
<br>
The issue was that I couldn't move the swap (/dev/sda5)
partition to the end of the drive in order to expand the
/dev/sda1 partition. The reason the swap partition could not be
moved was because it resides inside an extended partition
/dev/sda2. The solution was a 4 step process. <br>
<br>
1. Expand the /dev/sda2 extended partition to the end of the
drive.<br>
2. Move the /dev/sda5 swap partition to the end of the (now
larger) /dev/sda2 extended partition.<br>
3. Shrink the /dev/sda2 extended partition back down to just the
size of the /dev/sda5 swap partition.<br>
4. Extend the /dev/sda1 ext3 partition to the end of the
unallocated space."<br>
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On 08/17/2011 05:22 PM, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
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I'll plan on going to the meeting for sure. And to answer Scott,
I have used the gparted live cd but Jason is right and sdc5 is
in the way. I realize that deleting and recreating is
potentially very easy but part of the instructions are vague to
me and me screwing up is potentially there too!<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
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On 08/17/2011 02:28 PM, Jason Schaefer wrote:
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type="cite">You won't be able to move sdc1 if sdc5 is in the
way. Swap has no actual data on it. The safest and easiest
thing is to delete it and re-create it. You should go to the
meeting tomorrow! I might not be there as I leave for Denver
the next morning.. maybe someone else out there wants to show
up and help brian?<br>
<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:37 PM,
BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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.<br>
<br>
Brian
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On 08/17/2011 01:27 PM, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"> 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).<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
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On 08/17/2011 01:18 PM, Jason Schaefer wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Brian<br>
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.<br>
Jason<br>
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12:47 PM, BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi
all,<br>
<br>
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? <br>
<br>
Many thanks<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
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Here's the disk in GParted:<br>
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