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how is it possible to partition an existing used partition on linux without formatting and rebooting , and make a new partition to use the free space in the orginal partition.
you can resize the existing partition to drop the empty space and turn what you save into a new partition, but you can't just directly divide a partition into multiple partitions. Any of the usual partitioning tools should be able to do this (cfdisk, gparted, etc).
you can resize the existing partition to drop the empty space and turn what you save into a new partition, but you can't just directly divide a partition into multiple partitions. Any of the usual partitioning tools should be able to do this (cfdisk, gparted, etc).
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how to partition an existing partition in linux?
