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Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:18 am
by keos
Hello,
I made some kind of mistake while doing the copy/paste of the systems to the USB,
and I have now the remaining GB divided in 'two sections', partitions, how could I put together in one single partition the GB that I divided wrongly?:
[4.41GB - 6.55GB]
Captura de pantalla_2024-02-25_10-55-46.png
Thanks for your advice.
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:15 pm
by Charlie Brown
If you mean to join sdb5 and sdb6:
Delete sdb5 (delete also sdb6, easier than resizing),
then move sdb3 to leftwards, then sdb4 to leftwards,
finally create a new one using the whole unallocated space on the right-most.
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:03 pm
by keos
If you mean to join sdb5 and sdb6:
yes, that is what i need to do, if it is possible, but ...
after deleted this two partitions:
Screenshot_2024-02-25_12-55-32.png
...then move sdb3 to leftwards, then sdb4 to leftwards
I don't know now 'how to do' this step, or maybe I do not understand ...
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:15 pm
by MXRobo
OR , as an alternative - just expand 5 & 6 onto 3 & 4 respectively. - ???
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:59 pm
by keos
as an alternative - just expand 5 & 6
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:14 pm
by Eadwine Rose
Move left move right, you can do this easily by dragging the partitions in the image bar.
If that is what CB means, I am not giving any guarantee about data preservation.
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:16 pm
by Charlie Brown
keos wrote: Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:03 pm... don't know now 'how to do' this step ...
Just right-click on them (one by one) : "Resize/move" then you can even "grab" the partition (click the rectangle and hold the button and move to left) ... "Apply".
First on sdb3 then sdb4.
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:42 pm
by keos
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Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:00 pm
by Charlie Brown
It seems you shrank them rather than moving. If you grab from the edges then it's resized, you needed to grab from the middle or so.
Delete the "New Partition" , too.
Then "move" sda3 to left (grab the rectangle from the middle after selecting "resize/move")... "Apply"
But once you do it, this time enlarge it a bit (grab from right-edge) cause otherwise it's almost full, no enough free space), do the same for sda4, move, then enlarge a bit.)
In fact, after moving it you can enlarge sda3 to right-most , then no need to move sda4, just enlarge it a bit to rightwards.
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:16 pm
by keos
you needed to grab from the middle or so.
the partition is now unallocate', after right click the only option is 'New' which is taking me back to 'create new partition' > ext4, etc.
EDIT:
and if I formate to ext4, then:
Screenshot_2024-02-25_16-18-11.png
*there must be some way to completely remove that space/partition of 4.41GB so that these gigabytes can be automatically moved to the final partition section that now occupies the 39.99BG, because any resizing what it does is to fractionate it, it does not remove ... I'm going in circles, or maybe there is no how, do I explain better now?
I'll be back tomorrow, thanks.
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:54 pm
by Charlie Brown
Delete the sda5, it needs to be unallocated space. Then move others like this, here's an example from mine:
There's unallocated space on the left of sda13, so, to move it to left I need to select Resize/move and then grab it
like this:
Move sda13 to left.png
And then it'll look like this before Applying:
sda13 - Moved to left.png
And here is the wrong way cause if you grab it like this that won't move it but resize:
Not like this, that won't move it.png
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:27 am
by keos
Why 'unalocated' space do not give to me the same window? -- I don't get the same little window that you do:
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Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:05 am
by DukeComposed
keos wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:27 am
Why 'unalocated' space do not give to me the same window?
Because you've highlighted the unallocated space. The popup window is clearly asking you to create a new partition, not move an existing partition.
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:18 am
by keos
I understand absolutely nothing ... the best thing for me will be to delete the partitions that continue below and go back to copy and paste again ... -- Thank you all for the intention to help.
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:31 am
by DukeComposed
keos wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:18 am
I understand absolutely nothing ... the best thing for me will be to delete the partitions that continue below and go back to copy and paste again ... -- Thank you all for the intention to help.
If you want to resize/move a partition in Gparted, then you choose "Resize/Move" on it. You move the partitions that exist around, you don't move the unallocated space because there's nothing there. It's unallocated.
When you acted stumped by an "out of space" error trying to copy 59 GB of data into a 58 GB partition, I was a little surprised. I think the giveaway was pretending not to understand what subtraction was. That was a misstep; it made me more than a little suspicious.
Honestly, it's not about the trouble you're having moving data around anymore. Either you don't read what's in front of you or you're just having a laugh. And, honestly, I'm not even mad. I can appreciate a good joke, even when the joke's on me. I'm just impressed someone's out there in 2024 pulling off expert 1990s-era Tom Green levels of trolling. Looking through your posts, it's a solid slice of performance art. You have redefined "commitment to the bit". Bravo, sir.
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:47 am
by Eadwine Rose
DukeComposed wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:31 am
If you want to resize/move a partition in Gparted, then you choose "Resize/Move" on it. You move the partitions that exist around, you don't move the unallocated space because there's nothing there. It's unallocated.
When you acted stumped by an "out of space" error trying to copy 59 GB of data into a 58 GB partition, I was a little surprised. I think the giveaway was pretending not to understand what subtraction was. That was a misstep; it made me more than a little suspicious.
Honestly, it's not about the trouble you're having moving data around anymore. Either you don't read what's in front of you or you're just having a laugh. And, honestly, I'm not even mad. I can appreciate a good joke, even when the joke's on me. I'm just impressed someone's out there in 2024 pulling off expert 1990s-era Tom Green levels of trolling. Looking through your posts, it's a solid slice of performance art. You have redefined "commitment to the bit". Bravo, sir.
This is not the way we address other users here on this forum. You either take it to him in a PM or you contact a moderator/admin.
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:02 am
by keos
Not even privately, I will never respond to offensive messages of that type, they are so ennobled in their own intellectual vanity that they can't stand the ignorance of others --you'd better close the thread Rosa, in any case I already eliminated the partitions ... I will start ... Thank you.
Re: Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:06 am
by Eadwine Rose
Alright. Thread closer per user request. Good luck trying over.