Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Robert Nichols > <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote: >> On 08/01/2015 12:05 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> parted fs resize is deprecated. >>> http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6837 >>> parted fs move can only move a partition into free space >>> https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/move.html >>> >>> The thing to do here is use gparted live or Fedora live media and >>> yum/dnf install gparted. It has a move/resize option that will do what >>> the OP wants. >> >> The problem with gparted is that it works only in units of megabytes. >> There is no way to move a partition to a particular sector or, for >> that matter, do much of anything _exactly_. > I'm not sure why granularity finer than 1MiB is necessary. But setting > that aside, with a rotational drive with 4KiB sectors, you're better > off with 1MiB alignment than not being 4KiB aligned at all. Depending > on the drive and workload misalignment can cause a brutally bad > performance hit. And if it doesn't then I wouldn't worry about > changing anything. > Thanks everyone. That's the advice I need. The partition is ext4. I'll copy it to other media and rearrange the partitions and copy it back. Ken -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.