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I cannot resize my main partition. I don't have any space left on the drive. I can't touch it with terminal. It makes sense that I can't resize the main partition but at the same time I am not sure ... here's a picture...

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4 minutes ago, TBBZ8X8 said:

I cannot resize my main partition. I don't have any space left on the drive. I can't touch it with terminal. It makes sense that I can't resize the main partition but at the same time I am not sure ... here's a picture...

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How have you determined that you cannot resize it?

My native language is C++

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4 minutes ago, TBBZ8X8 said:

I cannot resize my main partition. I don't have any space left on the drive. I can't touch it with terminal. It makes sense that I can't resize the main partition but at the same time I am not sure ... here's a picture...

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you only used 8.55 Gib out of 74.53

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2 minutes ago, gamerking said:

you only used 8.55 Gib out of 74.53

Do you understand linux?

My native language is C++

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10 hours ago, tt2468 said:

How have you determined that you cannot resize it?

I click the partition and go to partition/resize. When I try to change the values or click and drag it won't change...

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18 minutes ago, TBBZ8X8 said:

I click the partition and go to partition/resize. When I try to change the values or click and drag it won't change...

is it mounted? You can't shrink ext4 when mounted. You have to unmount it then shrink it.

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You'll probably have to boot from a Live CD to do a resize while the drive is unmounted or run a gparted boot drive and do it there. He's not going to be able to unmount a drive mounted to / while his computer is running...

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4 hours ago, Raen said:

You'll probably have to boot from a Live CD to do a resize while the drive is unmounted or run a gparted boot drive and do it there. He's not going to be able to unmount a drive mounted to / while his computer is running...

Ok now here's the real question can I then mount the new partition that I am planing to put  on dev/sda1 to a folder inside a folder that has a different drive mounted to it?

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1 hour ago, TBBZ8X8 said:

Ok now here's the real question can I then mount the new partition that I am planing to put  on dev/sda1 to a folder inside a folder that has a different drive mounted to it?

Why do you need a new partition. Id just make a folder.

 

You don't need a partition to mount anouther drive. You can mount the other drive any where.

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45 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Why do you need a new partition. Id just make a folder.

 

You don't need a partition to mount anouther drive. You can mount the other drive any where.

No I have a different drive that's way bigger that I use for my nas but I am running out of space on it so I was just going to partition my boot drive off and mount it within my share folder so I could hold off on buying another drive a bit longer

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1 minute ago, TBBZ8X8 said:

No I have a different drive that's way bigger that I use for my nas but I am running out of space on it so I was just going to partition my boot drive off and mount it within my share folder so I could hold off on buying another drive a bit longer

no need ao partition it then. You can then just use a folder and make a nfs share. If you want to limit the amout of space used you can use quotas.

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