Hi John, Moving the rootfs partition shouldn't pose any problem, I've done this multiple times in the past with both EFI and BIOS systems.
Hope this helps, Hamish On 29 October 2024 15:20:43 GMT, John D <john.dub...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >Hi, >A longish story. I tried to upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 several weeks >ago following Ubuntu's standard notification. That attempt finished very >quickly, doing nothing, and then I saw that Ubuntu had withdrawn the advice. >A while later they re-instated the notification so I dutifully tried again. >That attempt went a lot further but some place in "installing system >components" the process stopped and the screen went black. I could do a text >login but no sign of the upgrade. So, I decided to install 24.04 from scratch >but wanted to keep 22.04 available. I split the root partition into 2 and >installed 24.04 into the second half. Foolish I think but I was getting tired. > >Now I have wiped (wipefs) the 22.04 half and erased it but I would like to >grow the 24.04 partition into the first half of the original root partition. > >I can do this with gparted from a live memory stick but what happens to the >boot arrangements? I'm using grub2, and I do have the GUI utility "grub >customizer". Grub customizer has noticed the absence of 22.04 but i haven't >saved that change in grub. > >This would give me more space for the system files but it isn't urgent. > >I'd appreciate your advices and also what should I have done? > >-- > Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2024-10-01 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2024-11-12 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
