[GTALUG] Partitioning Question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 07:30:09AM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote:
> For any future issues you might want to take a look at gparted. You can
> resize and reformat disk volumes with comparative ease. I've used it many
> times without losing data and without having to resort to my backups.
> 
> https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted/amp/
> 
> I don't use MS windows so I can't speak to keeping that os functionally
> intact when moving stuff around.
> 
> I have moved linux stuff from disk to disk on my desktop to grow storage
> and add distributions over the years with very few puzzlements.
> 
> I have resized ntfs and fat data partitions with no real issues but I
> usually practiced this stuff beforehand on a machine other than my daily
> driver.

I think the few times I have resized ntfs with gparted it has usually
worked, although back in the vista days it did break booting but it
seems that was fixed long ago.

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Len Sorensen