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First, you are running GParted from a bootable flash drive, not from
booting off the new sdc, correct?<br>
<br>
I have had issues, in a few instances, with GParted, when taking
multiple steps at once. <br>
Rather than do all the steps at once, I would do one step at a time.
<br>
Apply it and let it complete. <br>
Then do the next step.<br>
GParted often works fine with multiple steps, except when it
doesn't. :-)<br>
<br>
Further, you don't actually need to move the swap partition, just
recreate it in its final position.<br>
That would save time, but doesn't explain the error.<br>
<br>
These are the steps I would use, if I was doing it:<br>
1. Delete the swap partition (sdc5)<br>
2. Delete the extended partition (sdc2)<br>
3. Apply steps 1 & 2.<br>
4. Resize the data partition (sdc1), leaving 30 GB unallocated at
the end.<br>
5. Apply step 4.<br>
6. Create an extended partition in that 30 GB unallocated space.<br>
7. Create a 30 GB swap partition in that new extended partition.<br>
8. Apply steps 6 & 7.<br>
<br>
On 12/1/2018 9:05 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:d6dcec92-d2dd-2d50-3de4-7b09c701f63b@myfairpoint.net">
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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>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
</div>
<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>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Next is to resize in gparted - which
didn't complete. <br>
</div>
<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"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDgUwWkvuIY</a>
<br>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
</div>
<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>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">
<p>GParted 0.30.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid
--enable-online-resize</p>
<p>Libparted 3.2</p>
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <b>Grow /dev/sdc2 from 29.99 GiB to
723.03 GiB</b> 00:00:00 ( ERROR ) </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> calibrate
/dev/sdc2 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <i>path: /dev/sdc2
(partition)<br>
start: 437226563<br>
end: 500118191<br>
size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)</i> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> grow partition from 29.99 GiB to
723.03 GiB 00:00:00 ( ERROR ) <br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <i>old start: 437226563<br>
old end: 500118191<br>
old size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)</i> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <i>requested start:
437226563<br>
requested end: 1953523711<br>
requested size: 1516297149 (723.03
GiB)</i> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> libparted messages ( INFO ) </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <i>Unable to satisfy all
constraints on the partition.</i> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>========================================</p>
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <b>Move /dev/sdc5 to the right and grow
it from 29.99 GiB to 29.99 GiB</b> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>========================================</p>
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <b>Move /dev/sdc2 to the right and
shrink it from 723.03 GiB to 29.99 GiB</b> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>========================================</p>
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <b>Grow /dev/sdc1 from 208.48 GiB to
901.52 GiB</b> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<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>
</div>
<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>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">unallocated
was 693.04 GiB<br>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Partitions were dragged and moved per
the basic instructions.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
</div>
<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>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
</div>
<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"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=17646</a></div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">And: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738144"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738144</a></div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Is there a practical work around to
my reported error?</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks,</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Bruce</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
</div>
<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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<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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