Parition Moving

[Arty]

Can i move a partition around another one.

i have 50gb windows in front and 15gb Xubuntu in the middle and file storage in the back

can i bring xubuntu to the front?

[manikyath]

in short: yes

 

in long: it'll be a really messy process, and probably derp up your grub bootloader.

[Arty]

in short: yes

 

in long: it'll be a really messy process, and probably derp up your grub bootloader.

if i flat out remove windows 

then will it work easier?

[manikyath]

if i flat out remove windows 

then will it work easier?

then you can just expand the partition forwards, but the grub mess remains.

[Arty]

then you can just expand the partition forwards, but the grub mess remains.

my windows is on primary partition but my swap/xubuntu are on logical, this would this still work?

and deleting the windows system reserved, won't delete grub right or will it?

[manikyath]

my windows is on primary partition but my swap/xubuntu are on logical, this would this still work?

and deleting the windows system reserved, won't delete grub right or will it?

i honestly stayed away from moving the front of partitions, because of the grub mess, you wont delete grub, but it wouldnt know what to look for

 

this is fixable by updating grub, and then rebooting to see if it worked, if it didnt... well... its too late to attempt again...

[Beltboy]

Moving the front of a partition is possible but really messy and fails more often than not. there are various Partition managers that claim to be able to do this but whenever I have tried the whole partition has been corrupted.

 

Problem if partitions fill up from the front, so if you move the front you need to move all your data and I've never found any software to do that reliably.