Partition resizing

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hi all,
Just doing a sanity check before I break my laptop. My laptop has a 512 drive which I dual boot with Windows. Right now the drive is split 50-50, and I’d like to resize the partitions to give more space to EOS.
I’ve backed up my home folder and I’m currently creating a snapshot with rescuezilla so I can recover if I completely break things.

So the process I was going to follow is log into Windows and shrink my windows partition, reboot with the EOS install disk, and with gparted expand the Linux partition. I don’t have to do anything else do I?

Thanks in advance.

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What filesystem are you using on Linux?

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Ext4

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If you have an ext4 filesystem directly on the partition, then yes, that is really all there should be to it.

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Thanks for the sanity check

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@dalto again thanks for the sanity check. Worked like a charm, no errors. The only issue I had was not being able to shrink windows enough :slight_smile:

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It is possible that gparted can shrink it more than Windows will. There is, of course, risk in doing so.

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didn’t know that, The message I got was that it could not shrink it smaller than the furthest permanent file. In any event I got some more space