[Swlug] Safely resize linux partitions?

[Julian Hall]

I've done it safely in gparted live, but as always step 0.. back 
everything up first.

Julian

On 14/12/2018 18:38, Mark Summerfield via Swlug wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope someone can give me some clear and safe steps to follow please!
>
> I have this partition table:
>
> Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> udev                         7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
> tmpfs                        1.6G  2.9M  1.6G   1% /run
> /dev/nvme0n1p2                51G   45G  3.1G  94% /
> tmpfs                        7.8G   21M  7.8G   1% /dev/shm
> tmpfs                        5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
> tmpfs                        7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> /dev/nvme0n1p3               396G  214G  163G  57% /home
> /dev/nvme0n1p1               234M  6.1M  228M   3% /boot/efi
>
> It is one single SSD /dev/nvme0n1p1
>
> The order (left to right shown in gparted) is:
> [/dev/nvme0n1p1 /boot][/dev/nvme0n1p2 /][/dev/nvme0n1p3 /home][swap]
>
> So, I need to move /home right by 24 GB (thus shrinking it by 24 GB and
> avoiding the swap -- which I don't think I ever use since I have 8 GB
> RAM).
> Then, stretch / by 24 GB.
>
> Can I do this safely all in gparted live?
>
> Or am I best using a Live USB and running gparted from there?
>
> Or do I need to use console tools?
>
> Thanks!