[SOLVED] Doubt with partitions

vitorsgoncalves · 10-31-2010, 10:11 AM

I have three partitions in my HD: sda1, sda2 and sda3. sda3 is in the beginning of the drive, sda1 in the middle and sda3 in the rest (see attached image).

I want to format sda3 and expand sda1(where my OS is installed) ocupating the new free area, but it is before sda1.

The question is: Is this operation dangerous?

TobiSGD · 10-31-2010, 10:26 AM

I don't think that this operation is dangerous, but by all means, if you repartition your drive, backup all valuable data.

hughetorrance · 10-31-2010, 02:05 PM

You should be Ok to do this as you can only expand into an adjacent partition. !

vitorsgoncalves · 10-31-2010, 04:13 PM

Thank you guys, I just wanted to be sure, because of the amount of data movement and time needed. I will try it tomorrow.

michaelk · 10-31-2010, 04:21 PM

Make sure you run gparted from a live CD because you will not be able to resize a mounted partition. I also stress that you should back up all important data.

vitorsgoncalves · 11-01-2010, 07:04 PM

I booted the liveCD, expaded the partition and updated GRUB.

It took about 4 or 5 hours but everything gone fine.

TobiSGD · 11-01-2010, 07:26 PM

Then please mark your thread as solved with the thread tools.