• resizing partition disk

    From kyuzo@2:250/1 to All on Sat Oct 12 09:41:37 2024
    Hi,
    This is my partition table:


    /dev/sda1 * 2048 31230359 31228312 14,9G 83 Linux
    /dev/sda2 31234014 1953520064 1922286051 916,6G 5 Esteso
    /dev/sda5 31234048 33367004 2132957 1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
    /dev/sda6 33370112 1953520064 1920149953 915,6G 83 Linux


    I need to expand the root partition (sda1) moving and resizing sda2 and
    all the stuff in it (sda5 and sda6) whitout losing data.
    There is a save path to get it?
    Thanks in advance.

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Sat Oct 12 18:16:21 2024
    Reply-To: BobbieInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com

    On 10/12/24 01:41, kyuzo wrote:
    Hi,
    This is my partition table:


    /dev/sda1   *         2048   31230359   31228312  14,9G 83 Linux
    /dev/sda2         31234014 1953520064 1922286051 916,6G  5 Esteso /dev/sda5         31234048   33367004    2132957     1G 82 Linux swap /
    Solaris
    /dev/sda6         33370112 1953520064 1920149953 915,6G 83 Linux


    I need to expand the root partition (sda1) moving and resizing sda2 and
    all the stuff in it (sda5 and sda6) whitout losing data.
    There is a save path to get it?
    Thanks in advance.

    One way to save data is to backup data before you mess with the partition table. Likely the best way to do this to get a fresh iso
    file up to date and then use a either a live disk like Clonezilla
    if the distribution you use is not suitable for the backing up.
    Then start your new install by making a fresh set of partitions
    using a tool like GPartEd. Then reinstall and copy your data back
    to the new install.

    Good luck in any event.

    bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.04- Linux 6.6.25.- Plasma 5.27.11

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sat Oct 12 22:57:14 2024
    On 13/10/24 04:16, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

        One way to save data is to backup data before you mess with the partition table. Likely the best way to do this to get a fresh iso
    file up to date and then use a either a live disk like Clonezilla
    if the distribution you use is not suitable for the backing up.
    Then start your new install by making a fresh set of partitions
    using a tool like GPartEd. Then reinstall and copy your data back
    to the new install.

    Good luck in any event.

    bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.04- Linux 6.6.25.- Plasma 5.27.11

    Correct!
    Gparted will resize partitions, sort of on the fly, without losing data
    I did it once. An anxiety inducing event. Took some time, which
    increases the stress. But it eventually succeeded.
    I hope never to do it again thought, surely just asking for trouble.

    By the way, Hi Bobby! long time no hear. Have you heard the Bit Twister recently, He's gone quiet

    Regards
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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Sun Oct 13 00:24:55 2024
    Reply-To: BobbieInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com

    On 10/12/24 14:57, faeychild wrote:
    On 13/10/24 04:16, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

         One way to save data is to backup data before you mess with the
    partition table. Likely the best way to do this to get a fresh iso
    file up to date and then use a either a live disk like Clonezilla
    if the distribution you use is not suitable for the backing up.
    Then start your new install by making a fresh set of partitions
    using a tool like GPartEd. Then reinstall and copy your data back
    to the new install.

    Good luck in any event.

    bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.04- Linux 6.6.25.- Plasma 5.27.11

    Correct!
    Gparted will resize partitions, sort of on the fly, without losing data
    I did it once. An anxiety inducing event. Took some time, which
    increases the stress. But it eventually succeeded.
    I hope never to do it again thought, surely just asking for trouble.

    By the way, Hi Bobby! long time no hear. Have you heard the Bit Twister recently, He's gone quiet

    Regards

    Well you know I only proffer advice when it is something
    I know about and I know very little except what I have learned from
    bitter experience.

    Bit Twister I have not read in a while but in
    my lived experience of 87 years now it is common for people to drop
    off from Real Life as well as digita; online communities even in
    tightly organized place like the PClinuxOS Users Forum where several
    prominent parties have left the scene apparently on a permanent
    basis.

    As for myself I was situational depressed following the death
    of my roomer of 22 years in 2022. She was a lont time smoker and did not
    stop in time though they took care of the intial cancer it blossumed in
    her brain and it was spotted too late. Sge was ub a long term care
    facitily during the end of the problems in Covid transmission but
    I have never seen the pathologicial report. She was about 75 yoa
    when she left and we shared few interests.

    But I was not in the situation the individual mentioned
    where I needed to enlarge my / partition but had failed to do
    frequent backup when something happened and I ended up doing
    6 installs from the most recent PCLinuxOS iso files but had
    to get a new Flash Drive on the job before #6 was successful.
    I lost a lot of my work and that is quite a pain. A lot was
    posted to rec.arts.manga and I hope that Ray gets that back
    while i am still functional.

    i hope Faeychild that you are keeping well. I myself
    carring too many bags of groceries on October 4 and very tired
    from the week's exertions had a unpleasant fall at the top
    of the steps from the building's front door and acquired some
    miscellaneous bruises and scrapes but twisted or sprained
    my right ankle. Have been on ICE protocol since a more athletic
    friend, a young man of 55 reminded me on Monday.
    The ice on my ankle relieves my pain but it is very
    hard to do anything with my ankle up on a pillow with an
    ice bag on top of it.

    I did discover in my resetting up the Newsgroups
    rec.arts.sf.written which will be a good place to check
    on my recent postings. And they tolerate some political
    discussions as well.

    bliss - brought to you by the power and ease of PCLinuxOS
    and a minor case of hypergraphia

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Sun Oct 13 16:01:01 2024
    On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 04:41:37 -0400, kyuzo <kyuzo@tenno.com> wrote:

    Hi,
    This is my partition table:


    /dev/sda1 * 2048 31230359 31228312 14,9G 83 Linux
    /dev/sda2 31234014 1953520064 1922286051 916,6G 5 Esteso
    /dev/sda5 31234048 33367004 2132957 1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
    /dev/sda6 33370112 1953520064 1920149953 915,6G 83 Linux


    I need to expand the root partition (sda1) moving and resizing sda2 and
    all the stuff in it (sda5 and sda6) whitout losing data.
    There is a save path to get it?
    Thanks in advance.

    You may find it easier to just move some directories.
    For example, assuming /dev/sda6 is mounted as /home ...

    $ su -
    (enter root password)
    # mv /usr/share/doc /home
    # ln -s /home/doc /usr/share

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From kyuzo@2:250/1 to All on Mon Oct 14 08:42:48 2024
    Il 12/10/24 10:41, kyuzo ha scritto:
    Hi,
    I need to expand the root partition (sda1) moving and resizing sda2 and
    all the stuff in it (sda5 and sda6) whitout losing data.
    There is a save path to get it?
    Thanks in advance.

    Thanks everybody!

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  • From Gilberto F da Silva@2:250/1 to All on Mon Oct 14 15:24:41 2024

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    Bobbie Sellers escreveu:

    On 10/12/24 01:41, kyuzo wrote:
    Hi,
    This is my partition table:


    /dev/sda1   *         2048   31230359   31228312  14,9G 83 Linux
    /dev/sda2         31234014 1953520064 1922286051 916,6G  5 Esteso >> /dev/sda5         31234048   33367004    2132957     1G 82 Linux swap
    / Solaris
    /dev/sda6         33370112 1953520064 1920149953 915,6G 83 Linux


    I need to expand the root partition (sda1) moving and resizing sda2
    and all the stuff in it (sda5 and sda6) whitout losing data.
    There is a save path to get it?
    Thanks in advance.

        One way to save data is to backup data before you mess with the partition table. Likely the best way to do this to get a fresh iso
    file up to date and then use a either a live disk like Clonezilla
    if the distribution you use is not suitable for the backing up.
    Then start your new install by making a fresh set of partitions
    using a tool like GPartEd. Then reinstall and copy your data back
    to the new install.

    Good luck in any event.

    bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.04- Linux 6.6.25.- Plasma 5.27.11


    kyuzo escreveu:

    GParted is very useful for these situations. I have used it several times to perform this type of disk maintenance.

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    Gilberto F da Silva

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Mon Oct 14 22:42:34 2024
    On 13/10/24 10:24, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

        The ice on my ankle relieves my pain but it is very
    hard to do anything with my ankle up on a pillow with an
    ice bag on top of it.

        I did discover in my resetting up the Newsgroups
    rec.arts.sf.written which will be a good place to check
    on my recent postings.  And they tolerate some political
    discussions as well.

    bliss - brought to you by the power and ease of PCLinuxOS
                    and a minor case of hypergraphia



    The ankle despite its apparent robustness is a good worker but bad
    master. If it's like the ankle I twisted, many moons ago, it will
    forever be the sacrificial one.

    Sadly we shall all soon pass away, drop off the register. I hope Bit
    Twister is OK. He did mention some cardiac problems. All the good guys
    go early.

    I remember Blinky the Shark

    Beware those steps. One doesn't bounce so well as one gets older

    Regards

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Mon Oct 14 23:47:08 2024
    Reply-To: BobbieInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com

    On 10/14/24 14:42, faeychild wrote:
    On 13/10/24 10:24, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

         The ice on my ankle relieves my pain but it is very
    hard to do anything with my ankle up on a pillow with an
    ice bag on top of it.

         I did discover in my resetting up the Newsgroups
    rec.arts.sf.written which will be a good place to check
    on my recent postings.  And they tolerate some political
    discussions as well.

    bliss - brought to you by the power and ease of PCLinuxOS
                     and a minor case of hypergraphia



    The ankle despite its apparent robustness is a good worker but bad
    master. If it's like the ankle I twisted, many moons ago, it will
    forever be the sacrificial one.

    Sadly we shall all soon pass away, drop off the register.  I hope Bit Twister is OK. He did mention some cardiac problems. All the good guys
    go early.

    Good guys go early? See how wicked I am at 87.


    I remember Blinky the Shark

    Beware those steps. One doesn't bounce so well as one gets older

    After the age of 42 ones immune system declines and I made the
    mistake about 50 years ago of forgetting that fact and the result is my
    vey easy fatigabily


    Regards

    WE are old these day if we remember 5.25 inch floppies.
    We are very old if we remember 8 inch floppies.
    The oldest remember the announcement of the attack on Pearl Harbor before computers became machines.

    bliss - Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS-2024.06- Linux 6.6.51- Plasma 5.27.11

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  • From Daniel70@2:250/1 to All on Tue Oct 15 10:00:35 2024
    Bobbie Sellers wrote on 15/10/24 9:47 am:
    On 10/14/24 14:42, faeychild wrote:
    On 13/10/24 10:24, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

         The ice on my ankle relieves my pain but it is very
    hard to do anything with my ankle up on a pillow with an
    ice bag on top of it.

         I did discover in my resetting up the Newsgroups
    rec.arts.sf.written which will be a good place to check
    on my recent postings.  And they tolerate some political
    discussions as well.

    bliss - brought to you by the power and ease of PCLinuxOS
                     and a minor case of hypergraphia



    The ankle despite its apparent robustness is a good worker but bad
    master. If it's like the ankle I twisted, many moons ago, it will
    forever be the sacrificial one.

    Sadly we shall all soon pass away, drop off the register.  I hope Bit
    Twister is OK. He did mention some cardiac problems. All the good guys
    go early.

        Good guys go early? See how wicked I am at 87.


    I remember Blinky the Shark

    Bit Twister and Blinky the Shark .... sadly missed stores of knowledge!!

    Beware those steps. One doesn't bounce so well as one gets older

        After the age of 42 ones immune system declines and I made the mistake about 50 years ago of forgetting that fact and the result is my
    vey easy fatigabily


    Regards

        WE are old these day if we remember 5.25 inch floppies.

    Tick. Still got a few around!

        We are very old if we remember 8 inch floppies.

    Tick Used but never owned.

        The oldest remember the announcement of the attack on Pearl Harbor before computers became machines.

    BMT!! (Before My Time .... Well Before!!)

    bliss - Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS-2024.06- Linux 6.6.51- Plasma 5.27.11

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Thu Oct 17 22:02:20 2024
    On 15/10/24 09:47, Bobbie Sellers wrote:


        After the age of 42 ones immune system declines and I made the mistake about 50 years ago of forgetting that fact and the result is my
    vey easy fatigabily


    Regards

        WE are old these day if we remember 5.25 inch floppies.
        We are very old if we remember 8 inch floppies.
        The oldest remember the announcement of the attack on Pearl Harbor before computers became machines.

    bliss - Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS-2024.06- Linux 6.6.51- Plasma 5.27.11



    I member all those things. Pearl Harbour WAS before my time.

    Lay off the carbs, Bobby. They are highly inflammatory, it's unfortunate
    that they taste good.
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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Thu Oct 17 22:04:37 2024
    On 15/10/24 20:00, Daniel70 wrote:


    Bit Twister and Blinky the Shark .... sadly missed stores of knowledge!!



    Oh Dear! has the Bit Twister ridden on ahead?


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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Thu Oct 17 22:45:09 2024
    Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com

    On 10/17/24 14:02, faeychild wrote:
    On 15/10/24 09:47, Bobbie Sellers wrote:


         After the age of 42 ones immune system declines and I made the
    mistake about 50 years ago of forgetting that fact and the result is my
    vey easy fatigabily


    Regards

         WE are old these day if we remember 5.25 inch floppies.
         We are very old if we remember 8 inch floppies.
         The oldest remember the announcement of the attack on Pearl
    Harbor before computers became machines.

    bliss - Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS-2024.06- Linux 6.6.51- Plasma 5.27.11



    I member all those things. Pearl Harbour WAS before my time.

    Lay off the carbs, Bobby. They are highly inflammatory, it's unfortunate that they taste good.

    I have been eating for quite a while now. I have been cooking for about
    15 years less. I started in HS when we moved from West Sacramento to Sacramento but the Restaurant was now separate from
    the apartment and my mother left stuff for me to cook.
    It took me until i was over 40 to learn that steaks should be at
    least a room temperature to get decent results.
    Some carbs are inflammatory indeed but I see few of those afaik.
    The real problems is that I was raised on greasy foods and lots
    of milk. Now I am allergic to casein and to many other things as a
    result of forgotten warning when I in my 40s. That warning was that
    the immune system declines abruptly after the age of 42.
    I had some surgeries too close together got ill and never really recovered. I added to my allergies and food sensitivities as one result
    but maybe it started in my 30s when I had a od of aspirin while very ill
    and became allegic to salicyclates which are chemicals found not only in
    cheap painkillers but in fruits and vegetables.

    bliss - wow the topic drift is extreme.

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  • From Daniel70@2:250/1 to All on Fri Oct 18 10:12:53 2024
    faeychild wrote on 18/10/24 8:04 am:
    On 15/10/24 20:00, Daniel70 wrote:


    Bit Twister and Blinky the Shark .... sadly missed stores of
    knowledge!!

    Oh Dear! has the Bit Twister ridden on ahead?

    I don't know that either of them have gone that far ahead ... but they
    sure hasn't been here-abouts for a loooonnnngg time. ;-P
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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Fri Oct 18 23:56:14 2024
    On 18/10/24 08:45, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

        I had some surgeries too close together got ill and never really recovered. I added to my allergies and food sensitivities as one result
    but maybe it started in my 30s when I had a od of aspirin while very ill
    and became allegic to salicyclates which are chemicals found not only in cheap painkillers but in fruits and vegetables.

        bliss - wow the topic drift is extreme.


    So many allergies, Bobby. You must feel assailed from all directions

    I wish I had the magic wand
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  • From wicklowham@2:250/1 to All on Sun Nov 17 14:34:52 2024
    On 14/10/2024 15:24, Gilberto F da Silva wrote:
    Bobbie Sellers escreveu:

    On 10/12/24 01:41, kyuzo wrote:
    Hi,
    This is my partition table:


    /dev/sda1   *         2048   31230359   31228312  14,9G 83 Linux
    /dev/sda2         31234014 1953520064 1922286051 916,6G  5 Esteso >>> /dev/sda5         31234048   33367004    2132957     1G 82 Linux swap
    / Solaris
    /dev/sda6         33370112 1953520064 1920149953 915,6G 83 Linux >>>

    I need to expand the root partition (sda1) moving and resizing sda2
    and all the stuff in it (sda5 and sda6) whitout losing data.
    There is a save path to get it?
    Thanks in advance.

        One way to save data is to backup data before you mess with the
    partition table. Likely the best way to do this to get a fresh iso
    file up to date and then use a either a live disk like Clonezilla
    if the distribution you use is not suitable for the backing up.
    Then start your new install by making a fresh set of partitions
    using a tool like GPartEd. Then reinstall and copy your data back
    to the new install.

    Good luck in any event.

    bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.04- Linux 6.6.25.- Plasma 5.27.11


    kyuzo escreveu:

    GParted is very useful for these situations. I have used it several times to perform this type of disk maintenance.

    --

    Abraços

    Gilberto F da Silva
    Yes I agree, Gparted is also my partitioning app for all Linux distros .
    When I recover a HHD from a Windows infested machine ,I reformat with
    Gparted for re-use as a data disk or if it is already a SSD I reformat
    to ext4 for re-use with a Linux installation

    Frank in County Wicklow -Ireland


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