Hey,

I am running a dual boot; Manjaro and PCLinuxOS. I thought I had given both sufficient space, but apparently I had not. Now, I need to find a way to increase the size of both partitions. I have over 250 GB of free space, so I wondered if I could use that space to extend the partition I needed to increase their size?

Here is what I got when I did a check on my hard drive using the command 'sudo disc -l'

[klaude@mithradates ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
[klaude@mithradates ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for klaude:

Disk /dev/sda: 298.1 GiB, 320072933376 bytes, 625142448 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x000b6c4c

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 63 12193334 12193272 5.8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 12193335 61014869 48821535 23.3G 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 * 61014870 91014869 30000000 14.3G 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 12193398 44644634 32451237 15.5G 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 44644698 61014869 16370172 7.8G 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order.


I will post a screenshot of what gparted shows:



https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/46...673/bz89zy.png






I saw a video showing how I could use that 'free space' I am hoping I could do the same here?

With that setup, it will be messy. Free space must be contigous to the partition you wish to enlarge. So you could immediately grow /dev/sda3, but it will need to be moved out of the way to enable the extended partition (/dev/sda2) to grow before /dev/sda5 and 6 can grow. And obviously /dev/sda6 is in the way of /dev/sda5.

Can you post your fstab for both?
Or atleast name the partitions as to which partitions belong to which OS.