On 3/3/23 02:39, jdd@dodin.org wrote:

Le 02/03/2023 à 21:12, Frank McCormick a écrit :

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I want to enlarge the file system on my Tumbleweed partition and even after Googling the situation, I feel the whole

procedure is definitely above my pay grade :)

if you didn't begin the procadure, you can avoid it.

Simply create a btrfs file system on the other partition (from your running config), *append* this partition to your actual btrfs file system and balance the result.

No need to touch the partitions

  That's great news. I wasn't looking forward to the  whole rigmarole of  deleting, reformatting, moving etc etc. Now just have  to google balancing BTRFS. Thanks Frnk

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 08:33:56 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:

On 3/3/23 02:39, jdd@dodin.org wrote:

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Le 02/03/2023 à 21:12, Frank McCormick a écrit :

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I want to enlarge the file system on my Tumbleweed partition and even after Googling the situation, I feel the whole procedure is definitely above my pay grade :)

Simply create a btrfs file system on the other partition (from your running config), *append* this partition to your actual btrfs file system and balance the result.

No need to touch the partitions

    That's great news. I wasn't looking forward to the  whole rigmarole of  deleting, reformatting, moving etc etc.

Now just have  to google balancing BTRFS.

'man' as 'google':  btrfs-balance(8), btrfs(8) -- Robert Webb

On 3/3/23 02:41, jdd@dodin.org wrote:

Le 02/03/2023 à 21:12, Frank McCormick a écrit :

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I want to enlarge the file system on my Tumbleweed partition and even after Googling the situation, I feel the whole

procedure is definitely above my pay grade :)

https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Volume-management.html

Thank you. Will study closely, as BTRFS is far from ext4 which I am familiar with. Frank

Le 03/03/2023 à 18:02, Liam Proven a écrit :

On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 at 20:12, Frank McCormick wrote:

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What is the best way to go about this? I know partition work can only be done with the disk not mounted

Get the free Ventoy tool: https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

good tool that I use regularly, but don't always boot the iso, depending of the hardware jdd -- mon serveur usenet: dodin.fr.nf c'est quoi, usenet? http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Usenet.Usenet

On 3/3/23 12:02, Liam Proven wrote:

On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 at 20:12, Frank McCormick wrote:

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What is the best way to go about this? I know partition work can only be done with the disk not mounted Get the free Ventoy tool: https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

You don't need to install it. Just unzip and run it.

Use it to format a USB key. 8GB is enough, 16 is good, bigger is better.

Then you can just drop ISO files onto the key, no need to write them with any special tool. When you boot any PC off the key (32-bit or 64-bit, BIOS or UEFI, doesn't matter, it works on all) it generates a menu of all the ISOs on the key on the fly every boot.

Boot the distro you want.

You can use something small like System Rescue:

https://www.system-rescue.org/

You can put a full openSUSE live ISO on it:

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick

You could use a KDE-based distro if you like:

https://www.pclinuxos.com/

So long as it isn't your main OS, and it doesn't sound like it is, then it's easy.

Boot from the key, use Gparted to remove the partition you don't want any more, and then you can reuse the space.

If you use ext4 you can just resize into the free space with Gparted.

If it's Btrfs, you might need to install the Btrfs tools package for your live distro first.

Or you can use the commands others gave.

This is the simple, easy, safe way. I do it a lot. One of my laptops has about 10 OSes on it, including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Windows 10 and FreeBSD, managed this way.

  Great tool. I have used it once already a few weeks ago when Debian instlalled a new Grub2  which included an osprober package which failed to find my Tumbleweed installation. Thanks Frank

Le 04/03/2023 à 17:28, Frank McCormick a écrit :

On 3/3/23 12:02, Liam Proven wrote:

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On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 at 20:12, Frank McCormick wrote:

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What is the best way to go about this? I know partition work can only be done with the disk not mounted Get the free Ventoy tool: https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

You don't need to install it. Just unzip and run it.

Use it to format a USB key. 8GB is enough, 16 is good, bigger is better.

  I downloaded the latest Ventoy from their site this morning and created a new

Ventoy USBkey.  Copied  the latest openSuse live iso to the key but after booting

it does not show up. I didn't get any errors when installing Ventoy onto the key but

you have to boot from the key. Instructions are given in the ventoy archive

if I attempt to mount the key it fails with the warning exfat not found.

how did you copy the opensuse iso file?? jdd -- mon serveur usenet: dodin.fr.nf c'est quoi, usenet? http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Usenet.Usenet

Le 06/03/2023 à 13:00, Frank McCormick a écrit :

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you have to boot from the key.

this is only for use of the included isos Instructions are given in the ventoy archive sudo bash Ventoy2Disk.sh { -i | -I | -u } /dev/sdX sdX is the USB device, for example /dev/sdb.

Yes that's what I did. Insert the key and reboot. The Ventoy screen comes up but says it did not find any files.

if you just run the above command before rebooting, it's normal, no iso are on the drive

From the command line.. .. "cp whatever.iso /dev/sdc1"

sure this overwrite the ventoy install! To have a bootable key with only opensuse you have to type /dev/sdc (without the "1"), an iso is a full drive, not a partition.

I can't understand why I can't mount the key to have a look at what's on

do it again. run the above ventoy command then I don't remember if you even have to remove the key. Me I just right now plug a ventoy usb pen. Dolphin shows a "ventoy" disk, a clic ad it mounts an exfat partition, you can copy isos to this mounted partition as a file, not as a device . There is an other hidden (EFI) partition with ventoy driver. mine: Disk /dev/sde: 120.22 GiB, 129083899904 bytes, 252116992 sectors Disk model: STORE N GO 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: 0x09a21f19 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sde1 * 2048 252051455 252049408 120.2G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sde2 252051456 252116991 65536 32M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) then you can boot the usb pen and ventoy launch and shows the isos and offers to boot. booting the iso works often, but not always (approx ratio 4 times on 5 tries). Depends on the iso, the hardware, whatever... jdd -- mon serveur usenet: dodin.fr.nf c'est quoi, usenet? http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Usenet.Usenet

On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 17:31, Frank McCormick wrote:

These instructions from the Ventoy site are very confusing:

Are they? They do not seem it to me, TBH.

After the installation is complete, the USB drive will be divided into 2 partitions.

Right, so it tells you that there are 2 partitions. That's right. The other is the disk's ESP and you can't put an ISO into that because it's too small.

The 1st partition was formated with exFAT filesystem [...] You just need to copy iso files to this partition.

How is that unclear? There are 2 partitions. The first is formatted with exFAT. That is the one to use. That is all it says.

You can place the iso/wim/img/vhd(x) files any where.

First it says you copy iso files to this partition. What partition?

The first partition.

Then it says you can place the iso/etc files ANYWHERE !!

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On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 12:19:22 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote:

On 3/8/23 10:55, Liam Proven wrote:

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You can place the iso/wim/img/vhd(x) files any where.

First it says you copy iso files to this partition. What partition? The first partition.

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Then it says you can place the iso/etc files ANYWHERE !! Yes. In any folder you like on that partition.

  Now I get it.  But I still think their instructions need to be clearer.

Given that it seems to be clear to other people, how would you suggest it could be better worded?

  BTW, the first 3 flash drives I tried turned out to be defective, despite

Ventoy saying they had been created successfully by the GUI.

The last one I used the shell script.

Thanks