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Topic: Cant find good tutorial to follow (n00b)

hey everyone,

I am currently trying to extend my Linux VM partition in VMware Player. I am in the GParted GUI but see a different config than all the documentation I find on google. If someone could take a look and let me know what the next step might be, it would be greatly appreciated.

I have posted an SS on http://postimg.org/image/4xow9bw3x/

Thanks in advance

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Re: Cant find good tutorial to follow (n00b)

I have seen videos of people moving the partitions around, and shrinking and expanding them, but I'm not good enough to be jumping into that.

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Re: Cant find good tutorial to follow (n00b)

Fixed*

What I did was delete the Extended and Linux-Swap partitions, then I resized /dev/sda1 to expand over the unallocated space. I then took the remaining MB, and created it as Linux-Swap. It auto updated the label to /dev/sda2


Restarted and went into the VM terminal and did "leafpad /etc/fstab"
When it opened I changed the "# Swap blah blah blah /dev/sda5" that it was installed on, and changed it to /dev/sda2 to match the new Linux-Swap

Done

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Re: Cant find good tutorial to follow (n00b)

Thanks for reporting back with how you resolved the issue you encountered.

If you wished to avoid the need to update /etc/fstab with the UUID of the newly-created swap partition, you would need to also resize the extended partition.

For an example of how to do this, see Moving Space between Partitions.

For this and other information see the GParted documentation page.