Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 23:54, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 18:44 +, Ian Malone wrote: >> I think gparted should be able to do this for you, first move the >> start of the linux partition and filesystem towards the end of the >> disc (you'll have to shrink that filesystem, a

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread Doug
On 01/06/2016 12:16 PM, jd1008 wrote: by catenation to a partition on an external drive. I do not want to shrink the fedora partition, but I could if necessary; in which case does fedora have a partition resizer? I know I can back up the fedora partition, resize it and and restore from backup

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 18:44 +, Ian Malone wrote: > I think gparted should be able to do this for you, first move the > start of the linux partition and filesystem towards the end of the > disc (you'll have to shrink that filesystem, also done in gparted) > and then move it to create free space

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 10:49 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > sda3 is the fedora boot partition and formatted and mounted as ext4. You can shrink ext4 filesystem using resize2fs (assuming it has enough unused space of course). The fs has to be unmounted of course, so you may want to do it in single-user mode

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 17:49, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 01/06/2016 10:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 10:16 -0700, jd1008 wrote: >>> >>> by catenation to a partition on an external drive. >>> >>> I do not want to shrink the fedora partition, but I could >>> if necessary; i

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread jd1008
On 01/06/2016 10:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 10:16 -0700, jd1008 wrote: by catenation to a partition on an external drive. I do not want to shrink the fedora partition, but I could if necessary; in which case does fedora have a partition resizer? I know I can back

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 10:16 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > by catenation to a partition on an external drive. > > I do not want to shrink the fedora partition, but I could > if necessary; in which case does fedora have a partition > resizer? > > I know I can back up the fedora partition, resize it and >

OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread jd1008
by catenation to a partition on an external drive. I do not want to shrink the fedora partition, but I could if necessary; in which case does fedora have a partition resizer? I know I can back up the fedora partition, resize it and and restore from backup. But that could take many hours of down