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Just and FYI, I ran these steps and had to run a couple of them more
than once as GParted would give errors about overlapping partitions
or ending a partition before its beginning but those seem to be the
result of the click and drag approach being a bit sloppy. Here's
what I ended up with and it is not only bootable but the larger,
faster HD now resides in my Toshiba Satellite and is happily
running. Now I would love to replace the CPU with something that can
run hardware acceleration and 3D graphics so I can run certain VMs
that require the same and if I update to Ubuntu 11.04 I can run
Unity (not that I want to run it but it is the default Desktop).
Right now I have a Genuine Intel(R) CPU 585 @ 2.16GHz which is
plenty fast but the added features cannot be enabled. Any advice?<br>
<br>
See you at tonight's meeting.<br>
<br>
Brian <br>
<br>
On 08/17/2011 06:35 PM, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
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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>
<br>
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>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:37 PM,
BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a
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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>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 17, 2011
at 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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