last year when I went back to Arch from Manjaro, I made a critical error. I’m not sure if I was just tired when partitioning things off or what. but I made my root only 20GB instead of the 50 that I had intended. I know in a lot use cases that’ll be fine, but in mine, not so much. with steam compat taking up 1-2gb and keeping one version of pacman cache, I’m constantly getting the redline warning.

Tonight I plan on booting to live and resize my luks drive and hopefully not fuck it. and if I do? oh well…Timeshift will hopefully save me.

  • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.mlOP
    9·
    2 years ago

    UPDATE

    Booted to live and used gparted. had to fiddle with un-encrypting/re-encrypting the partitions in order to move everything around correctly, but everything was successful.

    nothing ended up needing to be updated in boot. systemd-boot is so basic that so long as the uuids don’t change, then it don’t care.

    All in all a good experience.

  • epyon22@programming.dev
    5·
    2 years ago

    Highly recommend using lvm in the future. You can undersize your partitions and when whichever one you need more space on it’s easy to grow. Also really easy to live migrate to other drives as needed. Good luck.

  • ShortN0te@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    Remember to make sure that all the boot configs are updated correctly after the resize. It could happen that your boot manager does not find the partition to unlock after a resize

  • h3ndrik@feddit.de
    1·
    2 years ago

    resize2fs and lvreduce? I mean if you have used LVM… It’s not easy, but doable without a reinstall. Yeah. the guides also tell people to make a backup first.

    • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      yeah, that’s been my conclusion as well. ripping off a bandaid that may break bad.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I did something similar. I loaded an older version of Mint off a live CD to use GPartEd to resize them. It worked like a charm, no problems.