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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks for the instructions on the BIOS
      - umm, nothing was wrong.  Having the USB stick prior to entering
      the BIOS made the device show up.</div>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">OK, dd'd the disk.  Took a long time,
      94 minutes, but everything is transferred, except for this email.</div>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Next is to resize in gparted - which
      didn't complete.  <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I followed a youtube video at
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDgUwWkvuIY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDgUwWkvuIY</a> <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Just to note,<b> sdc has never been
        mounted.  </b><br>
    </div>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
    </div>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">The video is done in a virtual machine,
      but I followed the part showing how to do the resizing.  The
      linux-swap was turned off.  The error is as follows:</div>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">
      <p>GParted 0.30.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize</p>
      <p>Libparted 3.2</p>
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              <b>Grow /dev/sdc2 from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB</b>  00:00:00    (
              ERROR )
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            <td>    </td>
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                      calibrate /dev/sdc2  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
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                              <i>path: /dev/sdc2 (partition)<br>
                                start: 437226563<br>
                                end: 500118191<br>
                                size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)</i>
                            </td>
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                    </td>
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                      grow partition from 29.99 GiB to 723.03
                      GiB  00:00:00    ( ERROR ) <br>
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                              <i>old start: 437226563<br>
                                old end: 500118191<br>
                                old size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)</i>
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                              <i>requested start: 437226563<br>
                                requested end: 1953523711<br>
                                requested size: 1516297149 (723.03 GiB)</i>
                            </td>
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                      libparted messages    ( INFO )
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                              <i>Unable to satisfy all constraints on
                                the partition.</i>
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      <p>========================================</p>
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              <b>Move /dev/sdc5 to the right and grow it from 29.99 GiB
                to 29.99 GiB</b>
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      <p>========================================</p>
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              <b>Move /dev/sdc2 to the right and shrink it from 723.03
                GiB to 29.99 GiB</b>
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        </tbody>
      </table>
      <p>========================================</p>
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              <b>Grow /dev/sdc1 from 208.48 GiB to 901.52 GiB</b>
            </td>
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      <p>========================================</p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">/dev/sdc1 is ext4 and what I want
      extended      208.48 GiB<br>
    </div>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">/dev/sdc2 is the extended partition   
                        29.99 GiB<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">/dev/sdc5 is the linux swap which was
      turned off 29.99 GiB and was inside the extended partition<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">unallocated
      was                                                  693.04 GiB<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Partitions were dragged and moved per
      the basic instructions.</div>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Can you give me a hint what went
      wrong?  I'm kind of surprised that it failed, essentially in the
      first step, growing the extended partition after turning
      linux-swap off.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">The problem might be that gparted still
      has a problem with leaving 1MiB at the end for the duplicate boot
      information.  I found a comment in 2017 for gparted: 
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=17646">http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=17646</a></div>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">And:
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738144">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738144</a></div>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Is there a practical work around to my
      reported error?</div>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks,</div>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Bruce</div>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
    </div>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/1/18 4:39 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:<br>
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    <blockquote type="cite"
      cite="mid:1600956f-69d0-e091-758d-b6131f4814d5@rastech.com">
      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On some of the BIOSes, unless you have the USB drive connected, before 
you go into the BIOS, it will not appear as a boot option.

Also, depending on the USB flash drive model, it may appear:
1) as a removable device (aka a floppy drive),
2) a hard drive (appearing as second choice under hard disk drives;
    you would need to change the 1st drive to USB and the 2nd drive to 
your current boot drive), or
3) as a CDROM drive.

Also, if you have a UEFI BIOS, you may need to switch it to Legacy, 
instead of UEFI.

Lastly, if you have a UEFI BIOS, you need a UEFI compatible boot device. 
In the case of Clonezilla, you need to download an AMD664 alternative 
version (Ubuntu-based), rather than the default Debian-based. (We have 
both the UEFI and Legacy versions of Clonezilla to try when we run into 
such issues.)

And, rarely, I encounter computers that simply cannot boot USB flash 
drives, but those tend to be much older ones.

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