On 3/14/26 10:29 AM, Nate Eldredge wrote:
On Mar 14, 2026, at 08:06, Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
This is the current layout.
Part. # Size Partition Type Partition Name
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1007.0 KiB free space
1 2.0 GiB EFI system partition efi-part
2 10.0 GiB Linux filesystem boot
3 400.0 GiB Linux filesystem root-part
4 180.0 GiB Linux filesystem var-part
5 150.0 GiB Linux filesystem build-part
189.5 GiB free space
I think I can just delete the partition for build-part and then add a new
partition that is larger, then do a file system and rsync the files back over.
My question, thing I want to be sure of, if I delete that and re-add it, that
will not affect my OS at all? Right? I may do a back up first but still, I'd
like to be sure this is at least doable and not risky. I'll be using cgdisk
and the usual file system tools for this. I'm assuming I'll have to recreate
the file system and such.
That should certainly work. Definitely back up the entire disk, though, as it
is too easy to make a typo and erase the wrong partition.
If your system has a GUI (or can forward over ssh to one that does), you might
consider trying gparted for this. It handles both the partitioning and
filesystem tools, and lets you queue up operations so you can see what the
overall effect would be. I do prefer command-line tools for most things, but
gparted is so handy that I would make an exception for it. (Not to be confused
with parted, which isn't just a text-based version of the same; it's a totally
different tool that only does partitioning and has much less functionality in
general.)
If it's just for builds, there's probably a minimal amount of data on
build-part that needs to be kept, so rsync'ing elsewhere won't take an
excessive amount of time or storage space. But you might be interested to know
that, depending on the circumstances, there may be ways to grow the filesystem
in-place, without having to recreate it and restore all the data (if all goes
well). In some cases you may not even have to unmount it.
If you want to know more, just ask. But please specify what filesystem type is
on build-part (ext4, btrfs, zfs, ...?).
Well, I'm not worried if I lose what is on the built-part partition. I
actually expect to lose that. It's just a copy of my main OS anyway. I
always rsync it over before I start the update/compile process. All I
do with it is build the binaries based off a copy of my main OS install.
I've heard of gparted but I've never used it. I may not use it this
time because since I know nothing about how it works, I just may make a
bad boo boo.
At least it seems what I want to do should work. I can copy my main OS
over to another USB stick or m.2 stick I have laying around here.
Speaking of. Anyone seen what the building of all these AI things has
done to the prices of hard drives and other hardware? Dang. They been
going up for a while. I kept hoping they would drop again. Not yet.
Dale
:-) :-)
