Re: Making a partition larger without affecting my OS.

Am 2026-03-14 15:06, schrieb Dale:
> I think I can just delete the partition for build-part and then add a
> new partition that is larger, then do a file system and rsync the
> files back over. 

You don't even have to do it like that. You can delete the small 
partition
(without deleting the filesystem), recreate it as a larger partition and
extend the filesystem with e.g. resize2fs (if you use ext4).
A graphical tool like gparted will take care of it for you.

Having a backup is still a good idea though. I have been using gparted 
for
more than 20 years now and lost data with it twice:

- Once due to when gparted crashed during resize
- Another time when the buggy AMD video driver caused my X server to 
die, killing gparted with it.

The application is extremely reliable, but if the procedure is 
interrupted
for any reason whatsoever (power outage), data loss will be the result.

Best regards