As I said, I don't see your problem. The first time I did this I got a size coupler and copied to old 2.5 contents to my big hard drive. The second time I had a net work and rsync'd it. You don't need to change drives if all you want to do is shrink /data. Copy /home and /data to your hard drive. Use gparted to zap the 2 old partitions. Make everything except the extant root a LVM. Set up minimal space as LVs on the LVM for a /home and /data and copy them back as EXT4. You've still got space on the LVM for other stuff and you can now shrink and grow the /home and /data as well. I've learnt to ALWAYS use a LVM for the simple reason that I don't know what the FS sizes are going to be over the lifetime. XFS doesn't make sense for me. Example: I file Photographs initially by year. if the FS gets crowded I create a new LV and move one year off to that & mount it in the old position. I've just done this with PhotoYear2014. While I was at it, I did the same with PhotoYear2017. So the base FS was now very sparse, so I shrunk it back, which freed up LEs that I can now use for something else. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org