On Ubuntu 22.04.2. I am attempting to resize the partition containing my /home using free space which exists immediately before/to the left of the current location of the partition. The actual /home is a volume within the partition in question (ditto for root and swap), which may be an artifact from a CentOS installation that previously lived within the partition currently being used for Ubuntu. This partition does not include /boot, which I've made sure lives in a different partition on the same drive.
The output of lsblk -o NAME,MAJ:MIN,SIZE,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINTS when booted normally:
NAME MAJ:MIN SIZE FSTYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 4K squashfs /snap/bare/5
loop1 7:1 243.8M squashfs /snap/code/119
loop2 7:2 116.8M squashfs /snap/core/14784
loop3 7:3 55.6M squashfs /snap/core18/2697
loop4 7:4 62M squashfs /snap/core20/1587
loop5 7:5 63.3M squashfs /snap/core20/1822
loop6 7:6 72.9M squashfs /snap/core22/522
loop7 7:7 81.6M squashfs /snap/discord/150
loop8 7:8 163.3M squashfs /snap/firefox/1635
loop9 7:9 240.6M squashfs /snap/firefox/2356
loop10 7:10 80.7M squashfs /snap/gmail-app/7
loop11 7:11 164.8M squashfs /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/161
loop12 7:12 219M squashfs /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/77
loop13 7:13 400.8M squashfs /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/112
loop14 7:14 346.3M squashfs /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/119
loop15 7:15 452.4M squashfs /snap/gnome-42-2204/56
loop16 7:16 91.7M squashfs /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
loop17 7:17 329.5M squashfs /snap/inkscape/10521
loop18 7:18 100.1M squashfs /snap/julia/74
loop19 7:19 67.3M squashfs /snap/jupyter/6
loop20 7:20 10.1M squashfs /snap/liquidctl/34
loop21 7:21 115.8M squashfs /snap/slack/68
loop22 7:22 45.9M squashfs /snap/snap-store/582
loop23 7:23 49.8M squashfs /snap/snapd/18357
loop24 7:24 304K squashfs /snap/snapd-desktop-integration/49
loop25 7:25 428K squashfs /snap/snapd-desktop-integration/57
loop26 7:26 320.4M squashfs /snap/vlc/3078
sda 8:0 2.7T
├─sda1 8:1 1M
├─sda2 8:2 15M
└─sda3 8:3 2.7T ntfs /media/ben/HDD
nvme0n1 259:0 1.8T
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 499M ext4 /boot
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 99M vfat /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 16M
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 1.2T ntfs
└─nvme0n1p6 259:5 145.5G LVM2_member
├─centos-swap
│ 253:0 14.6G swap [SWAP]
├─centos-home
│ 253:1 80.8G ext4 /home
└─centos-root
253:2 50G ext4 /var/snap/firefox/common/host-hunspell
/
When booted from USB:
NAME MAJ:MIN SIZE FSTYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 2.1G squashfs /rofs
loop1 7:1 62M squashfs /snap/core20/1587
loop2 7:2 4K squashfs /snap/bare/5
loop3 7:3 163.3M squashfs /snap/firefox/1635
loop4 7:4 400.8M squashfs /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/112
loop5 7:5 45.9M squashfs /snap/snap-store/582
loop6 7:6 284K squashfs /snap/snapd-desktop-integration/14
loop7 7:7 47M squashfs /snap/snapd/16292
loop8 7:8 91.7M squashfs /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
sda 8:0 2.7T
├─sda1 8:1 1M
├─sda2 8:2 15M
└─sda3 8:3 2.7T ntfs
sdb 8:16 28.7G iso9660
├─sdb1 8:17 3.6G iso9660 /cdrom
├─sdb2 8:18 4.1M vfat
├─sdb3 8:19 300K
└─sdb4 8:20 25.1G ext4 /var/crash
/var/log
nvme0n1 259:0 1.8T
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 499M ext4
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 99M vfat
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 16M
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 1.2T ntfs
└─nvme0n1p6 259:5 145.5G LVM2_member
├─centos-swap 253:0 14.6G swap
├─centos-home 253:1 80.8G ext4
└─centos-root 253:2 50G ext4
and the same after 'deactivating' the partition I want to move in Gparted:
NAME MAJ:MIN SIZE FSTYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 2.1G squashfs /rofs
loop1 7:1 62M squashfs /snap/core20/1587
loop2 7:2 4K squashfs /snap/bare/5
loop3 7:3 163.3M squashfs /snap/firefox/1635
loop4 7:4 400.8M squashfs /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/112
loop5 7:5 45.9M squashfs /snap/snap-store/582
loop6 7:6 284K squashfs /snap/snapd-desktop-integration/14
loop7 7:7 47M squashfs /snap/snapd/16292
loop8 7:8 91.7M squashfs /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
sda 8:0 2.7T
├─sda1 8:1 1M
├─sda2 8:2 15M
└─sda3 8:3 2.7T ntfs
sdb 8:16 28.7G iso9660
├─sdb1 8:17 3.6G iso9660 /cdrom
├─sdb2 8:18 4.1M vfat
├─sdb3 8:19 300K
└─sdb4 8:20 25.1G ext4 /var/crash
/var/log
nvme0n1 259:0 1.8T
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 499M ext4
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 99M vfat
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 16M
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 1.2T ntfs
└─nvme0n1p6 259:5 145.5G LVM2_member
I loaded Ubuntu 22.04 from a USB, used GParted to "deactivate" the partition (still unclear on the relationship between deactivate and unmount; my intention is to unmount the partition so it can be moved, but unmount is not explicitly provided as an option), queued and applied a move and resize to make the partition in question fill the space preceding it, and acknowledged a warning about not moving /boot before beginning the move. I then receive the below warning:
This warning gives the option to continue, but it seems unwise to do so. How can I (relatively) safely move and resize my partition?
