OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 00:32:03 UTC 2016


On 6 January 2016 at 23:54, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 18:44 +0000, Ian Malone wrote:
>> I think gparted should be able to do this for you, first move the
>> start of the linux partition and filesystem towards the end of the
>> disc (you'll have to shrink that filesystem, also done in gparted)
>> and then move it to create free space next to windows.
>
> Yes, I see gparted that it can manipulate the fs as well, so resize2fs
> isn't needed.
>

Actually, so far as I know, gparted will use resize2fs, it just
manages the trickier aspects of doing so (and takes care of the
partitioning too).

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