[Swlug] Safely resize linux partitions?

[Julian Hall]

Excellent :)

Julian

On 14/12/2018 23:21, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> Knowing it worked for you encouraged me to try.
>
> I made a Debian Live USB. It wouldn't boot at first because Unetbootin
> didn't set its boot flag, but once I'd done that with gparted it booted
> fine. I then had to install gparted 'cos it isn't in the basic .iso but
> I did all the moving/resizing and rebooted and everything worked:-)
>
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:54:47 +0000
> Julian Hall via Swlug <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>> 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!
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