Booting from sda should be fine. I just wanted to make sure you were not
resizing from a live file system, which, while it can work sometimes, is
problematic many times.
The 1MiB at the end of the drive appears to be related to GPT. If you
aren't using GPT, shouldn't be an issue. With a 1 TB drive, you don't
need to use GPT, in any event, though you could choose to. I have also
seen such fragments of unallocated space. which appear to have been
created due to partition alignment issues. I have never needed to leave
such space available. Your partitioning tool may leave such space
available, again, due to alignment issues.
On 12/2/2018 9:32 AM, Bruce.Labitt wrote:
I'm booting on to sda, not sdc. sda is a 240GB SSD. sdc is not
active and hasn't been mounted. sdc is a 1TB drive. When sdc is
finally sorted out, I will physically remove sda (240) from my laptop
and install sdc (1T). ( The bigger sdc drive probably will turn into
sda! ).
Just to make this explicit, the sdc drive is connected to the laptop
via a USB3/SATA adapter. I haven't opened up the laptop yet.
If you think I should boot from a USB Ubuntu flash drive I can do that
as well.
Thanks for the tips on gparted.
Do I need to allocate 1MiB at the end of the drive? I'm reading
conflicting requirements on this.
I will try your suggestions and will report back.
Sent from Blue <http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=14063>
On Dec 2, 2018, at 8:42 AM, Dan Jenkins <d...@rastech.com
<mailto:d...@rastech.com>> wrote:
First, you are running GParted from a bootable flash drive, not
from booting off the new sdc, correct?
I have had issues, in a few instances, with GParted, when taking
multiple steps at once.
Rather than do all the steps at once, I would do one step at a time.
Apply it and let it complete.
Then do the next step.
GParted often works fine with multiple steps, except when it
doesn't. :-)
Further, you don't actually need to move the swap partition, just
recreate it in its final position.
That would save time, but doesn't explain the error.
These are the steps I would use, if I was doing it:
1. Delete the swap partition (sdc5)
2. Delete the extended partition (sdc2)
3. Apply steps 1 & 2.
4. Resize the data partition (sdc1), leaving 30 GB unallocated at
the end.
5. Apply step 4.
6. Create an extended partition in that 30 GB unallocated space.
7. Create a 30 GB swap partition in that new extended partition.
8. Apply steps 6 & 7.
On 12/1/2018 9:05 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote:
Thanks for the instructions on the BIOS - umm, nothing was
wrong. Having the USB stick prior to entering the BIOS made the
device show up.
OK, dd'd the disk. Took a long time, 94 minutes, but everything
is transferred, except for this email.
Next is to resize in gparted - which didn't complete.
I followed a youtube video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDgUwWkvuIY
Just to note, *sdc has never been mounted. *
The video is done in a virtual machine, but I followed the part
showing how to do the resizing. The linux-swap was turned off.
The error is as follows:
GParted 0.30.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize
Libparted 3.2
*Grow /dev/sdc2 from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB* 00:00:00 ( ERROR )
calibrate /dev/sdc2 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
/path: /dev/sdc2 (partition)
start: 437226563
end: 500118191
size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)/
grow partition from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB 00:00:00 ( ERROR )
/old start: 437226563
old end: 500118191
old size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)/
/requested start: 437226563
requested end: 1953523711
requested size: 1516297149 (723.03 GiB)/
libparted messages ( INFO )
/Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition./
========================================
*Move /dev/sdc5 to the right and grow it from 29.99 GiB to 29.99
GiB*
========================================
*Move /dev/sdc2 to the right and shrink it from 723.03 GiB to
29.99 GiB*
========================================
*Grow /dev/sdc1 from 208.48 GiB to 901.52 GiB*
========================================
/dev/sdc1 is ext4 and what I want extended 208.48 GiB
/dev/sdc2 is the extended partition 29.99 GiB
/dev/sdc5 is the linux swap which was turned off 29.99 GiB and
was inside the extended partition
unallocated was 693.04 GiB
Partitions were dragged and moved per the basic instructions.
Can you give me a hint what went wrong? I'm kind of surprised
that it failed, essentially in the first step, growing the
extended partition after turning linux-swap off.
The problem might be that gparted still has a problem with
leaving 1MiB at the end for the duplicate boot information. I
found a comment in 2017 for gparted:
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=17646
And: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738144
Is there a practical work around to my reported error?
Thanks,
Bruce
On 12/1/18 4:39 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:
On some of the BIOSes, unless you have the USB drive connected, before
you go into the BIOS, it will not appear as a boot option.
Also, depending on the USB flash drive model, it may appear:
1) as a removable device (aka a floppy drive),
2) a hard drive (appearing as second choice under hard disk drives;
you would need to change the 1st drive to USB and the 2nd drive to
your current boot drive), or
3) as a CDROM drive.
Also, if you have a UEFI BIOS, you may need to switch it to Legacy,
instead of UEFI.
Lastly, if you have a UEFI BIOS, you need a UEFI compatible boot device.
In the case of Clonezilla, you need to download an AMD664 alternative
version (Ubuntu-based), rather than the default Debian-based. (We have
both the UEFI and Legacy versions of Clonezilla to try when we run into
such issues.)
And, rarely, I encounter computers that simply cannot boot USB flash
drives, but those tend to be much older ones.
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