exending a partition

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 at 18:35, n.roade <nepal.roade at pobroadband.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I have a 512gb SSD that has two partitions. The first holds my Mint
> Linux OS and is about 150 gb, the second is just for my media
> files and about 350gb and is full. I have a second SSD that I want to
> use for Mint alone. Can I safely extend the media partition on the
> 512gb ssd to a single partition and not lose the media content on it?

It depends how you do it. :-)

If you have 2 SSDs in 1 PC, normally, one would probably be /dev/sda
and one /dev/sdb.

If you arrange it so that the new drive is sda and the old one becomes
sdb, then you could just copy your root partition onto the new drive,
install a new bootloader, then change the mount point of the old
partition to its new location. So if before it was /dev/sda2 now it
would be /dev/sdb2, for example.

If you resize the partition with Gparted, the contents will be intact.
But a backup is always a good idea, of course.


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