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I need to resize my sda4 to be able to install a program that needs quite much GB. I booted to my USB stick and tried Gparted but I couldn't make it to work resizing. I have an unallocated space of 3 GB I tried to use also with no luck. How to use this unallocated space for sda4? Or any other solution? I need at least 2 GB more.
I need to resize my sda4 to be able to install a program that needs quite much GB.
That is very unlikely.
The swap can be enlarged, and/or the free area can be used as a second swap extent. Instead of telling us what you think you need, show us what the problem is - with messages.
I wonder if it's a tmpfs issue with /tmp - run this from a terminal on the system where you are trying the install.
Code:
df -hT
Last edited by syg00; 11-22-2021 at 01:29 AM.
Reason: tmpfs
swapoff the swap partition, then you can shrink/move over the swap partition to make room for sda3 to be increased in size. Be warned you may have booting problems by moving the beginning of sda3.
Last edited by colorpurple21859; 11-22-2021 at 11:55 AM.
basically you may try to move your swap to the unallocated space and after that you may try to increase the size of sda3. But installing 27 GB onto your root partition may make your full system useless.
It worked by moving unallocated to swap and then shrinking swap and then resizing sda4. But that 27 GB is CS on Steam and I'm not overwhelmed doing it. An experiment with my son. It's just an old MacBook we're playing with. Thanks!
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