partition issues

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:36:43AM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 25 October 2017 at 11:00, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
> > Colin's heart is in the right place, but he forgot an important detail: sda6
> > and sda5 are extended partitions that reside, in turn, on sda2.  So you can
> > resize (presumably; I'm not sure I've ever tried this) sda6, but then you'll
> > need to move sda5 to the rightward boundary, and THEN you'll need to resize
> > sda2, too.
> 
> I don't think I forgot anything. According to the information above
> sda5 is already at the top (or right) of sda2 so cannot be moved.
> after removing sda6 then sda5 can be shrunk (upwards from the bottom)
> so there is no space at the front of sda5. The free space will then be
> between sda1 and sda2 so sda1 can be extended.

... and possibly consider using GPT as the partition table format next
time you're building a system, since it avoids having to remember all
this nonsense!  (IMO, GPT is the single best thing about the UEFI spec,
and it's usually - though sometimes with a bit of fiddling - possible to
use it even on BIOS-based systems.)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]