On Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:18:15 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 12/6/20 1:07 PM, Amadeus WM via users wrote: >> Or, maybe gparted? I can delete sda1, then expand sda2 to the beginning >> of the disk. Would that work? > > Hi, > > No, you can't. You can only expand forward; not backward (to the > beginning as you say). For example, you could delete sda2 and expand > sda1 up until the end of the device (to have one big partition) and then > expand the filesystem...but not the other way around. Actually I tried this on an usb stick and it worked, except that it obliterated my sda1. In my case this would not be a big deal, because the partition is small and I can put the stuff in it elsewhere before the surgery. So on stick, I had sda1 and sda2, in this order, just like on the real disk. I deleted sda1 to make room to the left of sda2 and expanded sda2. The contents of sda1 is gone, but the stuff on sda2 is fine. The only thing now is that I have a single partition named sda2. I may have to delete it and recreate it with fdisk with thee exact same boundaries. No big deal anyway. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
