Heya, I just moved from Manjaro to EndevourOS, and I want to keep my old Manjaro Install “just in case” (Last time I switched OSes I forgot something, which still pisses me off big time). Manjaro is installed on an NVME drive, with a small EFI partition, a big /home one and a nested / inside home - don’t know why Manjaro does the install via Calamares this way, but it does. efi is FAT32 ofc, rest is EXT4. I want to keep the data, but want to resize home, wiothout losing data, so that I can use the empty space for other purposes - it’s like 1,5TB wasted space. Can I just run gparted, resize and be happy? I have a backup, but nevertheless am a bit scared…
I am not sure I understand that. Can you share lsblk -o name,fstype,type,label,size,mountpoint
from the Manjaro install.
For sure:
lsblk -o name,fstype,type,label,size,mountpoint
NAME FSTYPE TYPE LABEL SIZE MOUNTPOIN
nvme0n1 disk 1,8T
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat part 1000M
└─nvme0n1p2 btrfs part endeavouros 1,8T
nvme1n1 disk 1,8T
├─nvme1n1p1 vfat part NO_LABEL 500M /boot/efi
├─nvme1n1p2 ext4 part home 1,7T /home
└─nvme1n1p3 ext4 part system 162,1G /
I dont understand that point. You are talking about nvme1n1
I assume.
lsblk
shows that it has a separate root partition nvme1n1p3
. What do you mean with “nested”?
Resizing the manjaro home ( nvme1n1p2
with 1,7 TB) will not be that easy. It has another partition before and after it. If you resize it, you will create a hole of empty space. You would then need to create a new partition in that empty space. I have never done this before but it should work.
But then, the manjaro root partition will become nvme1n1p4
. This might effect the boot process of Manjaro in case you ever want to boot it again.
Well, with nested I meant exactly that - it is on p2 instead of p3, which would have made things way more easily. Can’t I just resize /home and then move / “to the left”, so to speak?
In a technical sense, nested means “Inside of” which is what I think is causing the confusion.
In this case, /
isn’t inside of /home
, it is in a neighboring partition.
I don’t see any issues here.
Why do you want to move /
to the left? Why not leave it where it is? It is at the end of the logical disk so there shouldn’t be a need to move it.
Thanks for clarificcation, will need to be more precise in my wording.
Well, I want to move it to the right to have the manjaro stuff tucked together. Just a OCD thingy I guess
will it hurt, though? I guess not…
Moving partitions always incurs a small risk of data loss. Personally, I would not relocate a partition simply so it was next to a related partition.
I would simply shrink the home partition and add the new partition to the empty space you create.
Will follow your advice, Sir!
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