Post #454584
2026-02-22 17:56 UTC
*nothing* makes me feel more like a hot cyberpunk hacker than using dd
My partition table was:
windows linux(/) linux(/home)
The / partition was way too small. You can't resize partitions leftward.
I freed up space:
windows free linux(/) linux(/home)
then dd'd /:
windows linux(/)(copy) linux(/) linux(/home)
then wiped /:
windows linux(/)(copy) free linux(/home)
then resized /(copy):
windows linux(/)(copy) linux(/home)
and everything works! Linux is so cool!
#linux
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-02-22 18:17
@esther_alter That's some delicate work! Congratulations on succeeding without losing any data. It is theoretically possible to move a partition leftward, but it isn't simple. I'm not sure if there's any software to do it. Personally, I just put everything on a single btrfs partition and avoid all this fragility. 🤷♂️