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. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
