El jue., 21 feb. 2019 a las 17:07, stakanov (
On 2/21/19 9:12 AM, stakanov wrote:
have a partition with /boot / /home /swap
on a 30 GB partition in KVM
Now the 30 GB were a limitation of a former disc. So I have space now to copy for testing real home. I resized the disc space available and then I did boot the VM. It showed obviously 300 GB available and unpartitioned after the /swap. So I wanted to use these plus of 300 GB for home. I did erase the swap. I then tried to upsize home and it would offer only all space available. But I wanted to to have the swap in front of home. So I did create on the free space an ext4 partition with home, mounted it as newhome and rsynced home. At the end umount /home and I mounted the newhome now as home. now I did restart and then I went to partition manager. there was the free 30 GB in the middle between root and home. So I created first 2 GB Swap. Good, no problem. Now I wanted to either shift and then upsize home or to extend home right away to use the available disc space (not partitioned). But the partitioner said: No free space available. So he does not see uphill disk space? So I tried to move the partition. But this is apparently not possible because already created on the disc. I understand the latter but is it normal that a resizing is not possible? Is this a known shortcoming of partitioning or is it a problem of the 15.1 partitioner? (Be patient with my ignorance).
The default partitioners in the distros have relatively little power, and are designed to do the ordinary kinds of things that worked for you, and to avoid dangerous operations such as moving a partition, which is very dangerous for the data in that partition. The things you want to do are best done with GParted. My suggestion is that you download the live GParted iso, boot that and do the things that you want. Doing a live version avoids problems with trying to do things on a mounted volume. Since you are working with a VM, you won't even need to burn a CD.
I also suggest that you make another copy of the data in /home before you try to move that partition. I once lost the entire contents of a disk because there was a power glitch while I was moving a partition.
Larry Thanks. For what it is good for: the installation is for testing purposes and to see if migrated my laptop and files will perform as desired. The question was more to understand if this is a bug to be reported or not. It seems it is not. Currently I am still trying to a) import an archive of kmail into the new account with postgres10. If I succeed I will try to upgrade another similar account from 9.6 to 10. All for learning purposes, so you see, I have a lot of
In data giovedì 21 febbraio 2019 18:02:37 CET, Larry Finger ha scritto: things to do. Thank you for the heads up. Regards.
Have you ensured that the partitioner does not partition and format the existing /home partition? It has happened to me with a previous version of 15.1 alpha, in the PC of a friend, who later wanted to kill me for the loss of all the information Cheers, Juan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org