Re: Making a partition larger without affecting my OS.

On 3/14/26 8:18 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Dale, I highly recommend gparted - its FAR less likely you will make a 
> mistake.  Practise on a usb stick first if you need confirmation. 
> gparted handles file system creation and in some cases data movement.  
> ie, think of it as creating a script that you approve before pressing 
> go.  You can queue up commands like move this partiion (including 
> data) to the end of the disk , delete that partition, extend another  
> partition (moving data if needed) to fill up half the free space.  
> Create a new partition and format it as btrfs. Check that it looks 
> good (visualisation and any errors highlighted) and press go!
>
> This is one case where the visualisation and protection for shooting 
> yourself in the foot can be worth its weight in gold!
>
> BillK
>
Well, that is what I ended up using.  I opened gparted just to have a 
look.  It said the file system wasn't the size of the partition or 
something.  Anyway, I worked around and it fixed it.  At least I think 
it did.  I may have to make it bigger again one day and if I do, I'll 
likely try gparted again.  I just have to remember to hit the apply 
button.  LOL  I didn't know one had to do that the first time.  I was 
wondering why it didn't seem to do anything at first. LOL

I'll know next weekend if it works or not.  If I have a big package to 
update, that isn't done on tmpfs.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)