How long gparted shrink

You do not have to pay money to use GParted. You have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve GParted. GParted is free software. GParted is the partition editor application. See the features page for more information on these tools. Of course you have to realize I cannot give any guarantees, so you should probably make a backup of important data before toying with your partitions.

To fix the boot problem you will need to repair the boot configuration. See FAQs 14 , 15 , and 16 for Windows. Nope, that is, not one an ordinary human being will ever reach. I myself tested it with up to operations and it went smoothly. After all it's your data which is at risk. Most likely I will take another server that I was about to retire and experiment on that one before I modify my existing server.

I also plan on doing this in two steps. If I can get those two steps to work correctly on my test server, then I'll repeat that process on my current server. I still need to review steps some more, after that I might have a few questions about those steps. GParted will perform a file system check and then shrink the file system. Not really sure how long the FSCK will take. With only G of files in home I guess 5 to 15 minutes.

The home file system shrink will be almost immediate. Shrinking a file system has to relocate all data above the new smaller target size to below it, but your file system only contains G in 2. All the other commands in steps are just updating a bit of metadata and will be almost immediate.

Step 8 and Once to relocate each of the mirrored members sd[ab]3. The size of the root file system, not the 17G of files it contains. I expect each re-mirroring will take 5 to 10 minutes. Again this will do a FSCK before growing the file system. Growing the file system will be almost immediate. Thanks for your time estimates, overall it seems like it won't take that long.

I also liked your explanation about how for root it will mirror the full 35g not just the 17g of files. Since this is a learning experience for me, I want to experiment on a server that does not matter if things go haywire. Previously I used fsarchiver to backup "home" and "root". Here is what I want to try first on my "testing" server. The thing that somewhat stumps me is the archived "root" files will contain the information for the raid 1 array from my "real" server.

If I simply replace all the root files, I don't think it will work correctly because the partitions on my "testing" server will be slightly different.

Are there files I should not overwrite in root that define the raid 1 array? Using windows shrink it, then leave that empty part alone with windows, and let gparted take control of it, and yes it takes time to move files and reestablish the partitions. Windows too, i bet still has its not movable files I am sure that you'll have to deal with. If not you might inadvertency move something that you should not have using gparted and well, a reinstall Windows might have to be added to your list of things to do.

Last edited by BW-userx; at AM. Find More Posts by BW-userx. If you need to move data in large partitions it can take literally hours. In some cases the authentication for root falls behind some other window. The only real safe way was to have a full backup. Anytime you stop it in that operation even if you had saved an undo file it can be unrecoverable.

Hidden dialog box. I had the operation stuck for 2 hours before this last post hinted that I might have a hidden dialog box. GParted was hasking me for GPT to use all available space. Pushed every other window aside and clicked Ok and the proccess unblocked. Thread Tools.

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