<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div dir="auto">I'm booting on to sda, not sdc. sda is a 240GB SSD. sdc is not active and hasn't been mounted. sdc is a 1TB drive. When sdc is finally sorted out, I will physically remove sda (240) from my laptop and install sdc (1T). ( The bigger sdc drive probably will turn into sda! ). <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Just to make this explicit, the sdc drive is connected to the laptop via a USB3/SATA adapter. I haven't opened up the laptop yet.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">If you think I should boot from a USB Ubuntu flash drive I can do that as well.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Thanks for the tips on gparted. <br></div>
<div dir="auto">Do I need to allocate 1MiB at the end of the drive? I'm reading conflicting requirements on this.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">I will try your suggestions and will report back.<br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote" >On Dec 2, 2018, at 8:42 AM, Dan Jenkins <<a href="mailto:dan@rastech.com" target="_blank">dan@rastech.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
First, you are running GParted from a bootable flash drive, not from booting off the new sdc, correct?
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<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. :-)
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<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.
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<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.
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<br> On 12/1/2018 9:05 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote:
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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.
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OK, dd'd the disk. Took a long time, 94 minutes, but everything is transferred, except for this email.
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Next is to resize in gparted - which didn't complete.
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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>
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Just to note,
<b> sdc has never been mounted. </b>
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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:
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<p>GParted 0.30.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize</p>
<p>Libparted 3.2</p>
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<td colspan="2"> <b>Grow /dev/sdc2 from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB</b> 00:00:00 ( ERROR ) </td>
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<td colspan="2"> calibrate /dev/sdc2 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) </td>
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<td colspan="2"> <i>path: /dev/sdc2 (partition)<br> start: 437226563<br> end: 500118191<br> size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)</i> </td>
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<td colspan="2"> grow partition from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB 00:00:00 ( ERROR ) <br> </td>
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<td colspan="2"> <i>old start: 437226563<br> old end: 500118191<br> old size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)</i> </td>
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<td colspan="2"> <i>requested start: 437226563<br> requested end: 1953523711<br> requested size: 1516297149 (723.03 GiB)</i> </td>
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<td colspan="2"> libparted messages ( INFO ) </td>
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<td colspan="2"> <i>Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.</i> </td>
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<td colspan="2"> <b>Move /dev/sdc5 to the right and grow it from 29.99 GiB to 29.99 GiB</b> </td>
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<td colspan="2"> <b>Move /dev/sdc2 to the right and shrink it from 723.03 GiB to 29.99 GiB</b> </td>
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<td colspan="2"> <b>Grow /dev/sdc1 from 208.48 GiB to 901.52 GiB</b> </td>
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/dev/sdc1 is ext4 and what I want extended 208.48 GiB
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/dev/sdc2 is the extended partition 29.99 GiB
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/dev/sdc5 is the linux swap which was turned off 29.99 GiB and was inside the extended partition
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unallocated was 693.04 GiB
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Partitions were dragged and moved per the basic instructions.
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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.
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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:
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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>
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Is there a practical work around to my reported error?
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Thanks,
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On 12/1/18 4:39 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:
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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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