Help with partitioning - shrink an Extended Partition
by Milo4t from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5SNQN)
Hello all. Just wondering if the assembled wisdom could assist me with this problem.
I have previously mucked around (successfully) with re-sizing & moving partitions, but that was with primary partitions when there was spare space to do it - and not dealing with an Extended partition.
I have a drive containing several partitions, one being /var. /var is now full, I can't print or install updates. I could expand /var by 1.6Gb that is free to the right of it (not enough for what I want), but I want to double the size of /var but I am hampered by the fact that the partition to the right (see screen shot) is an Extended partition containing a Logical partition which takes up the rest of the room to the end of the drive.
My question is, to create the required space to expand /var, do I first have to shrink the Logical partition /dev/sdc5, then shrink and move the Extended partition (/dev/sdc4) to the right thus creating some spare space that I can expand /var into?
I found another problem on here similar to this from a few years ago, but the person had an extended partition containing swap in the middle of other primary partitions, so not quite the same.
I don't have any experience with re-sizing Extended partitions and I just don't want to be mucking around with this, not knowing and not being comfortable with what I'm doing, and completely mucking the drive up.
Any help greatly appreciated.
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I have previously mucked around (successfully) with re-sizing & moving partitions, but that was with primary partitions when there was spare space to do it - and not dealing with an Extended partition.
I have a drive containing several partitions, one being /var. /var is now full, I can't print or install updates. I could expand /var by 1.6Gb that is free to the right of it (not enough for what I want), but I want to double the size of /var but I am hampered by the fact that the partition to the right (see screen shot) is an Extended partition containing a Logical partition which takes up the rest of the room to the end of the drive.
My question is, to create the required space to expand /var, do I first have to shrink the Logical partition /dev/sdc5, then shrink and move the Extended partition (/dev/sdc4) to the right thus creating some spare space that I can expand /var into?
I found another problem on here similar to this from a few years ago, but the person had an extended partition containing swap in the middle of other primary partitions, so not quite the same.
I don't have any experience with re-sizing Extended partitions and I just don't want to be mucking around with this, not knowing and not being comfortable with what I'm doing, and completely mucking the drive up.
Any help greatly appreciated.
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