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UPDATE
Booted to live and used gparted. had to fiddle with un-encrypting/re-encrypting the partitions in order to move everything around correctly, but everything was successful.
nothing ended up needing to be updated in boot. systemd-boot is so basic that so long as the uuids don't change, then it don't care.
All in all a good experience.
Awesome! 😎
I recommend next time to use btrfs. With / and /home (at least) as separate subvolumes. Each subvolume will use the space it needs, and no more. If you have a 500Gb SSD with 300Gb in /home, and 20 in / they both have 180Gb they can use.
And when you manage to fill the 500Gb, it's easy to just add another drive to the volume.
Btrfs is really cool, just a warning: I had a surprise when I found out the subvolumes make a device more of a hassle to mount externally, you can't just put it on an external HDD enclosure and expect it to work as painlessly as it is with more "traditional" file systems, I had to mount each subvolume manually as GUI file managers only mounted the root.
It's not complicated, but more than I'd hoped for.
in many cases you could simply move the directory that is taking too much space to different directory then either make softlink or if that didnt work you can use mount --bind
for example if directory /var/cach/mygame is too big, move my game to /mnt/part2/mygames
then either do ln -s /mnt/part2/mygames /var/cach/ or mount --bind /mnt/part2/mygames /var/cach/mygames
the miunt option is not permanent so if it works, u will need to add it to /etc/fstab to make it permenent
Highly recommend using lvm in the future. You can undersize your partitions and when whichever one you need more space on it's easy to grow. Also really easy to live migrate to other drives as needed. Good luck.
what file system are you using?
ext4
https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-convert.html
This could help
That's really cool, I didn't realize this was even possible.
We'll dunno much but wouldn't the UUID of the drive partition change?
If you resize the partition? No, the UUID gets allocated when the partition is created and stays the same for the lifetime of the partition. It only changes if you explicitly change it manually. Which is something that's only needed very rarely.
For example I had to do it when I migrated my root disk to a larger SSD by cat-ing the entire disk to the new one and I wanted to keep both connected for a while (so I can boot into the old one in case anything went wrong). I had to change the UUID of the partition on the new disk but I still ran into some obscure grub issues and had to boot a system rescue live stick into the new disk to update grub properly. Overall it's not a very good idea, in the future I think I'll stick to rsync -avx root into the new partition.
In my case it actually changed after i resized it. It was unexpected and broke my system. After i adjusted the UUID in the boot config it worked again.
That's really unusual and yeah I can see how that would surprise you. What tool did you use to resize it?
Thinking about what i did (already a few weeks ago) i think it makes sense now. A lot of sources suggested it would be easiest to delete the partition and simply create a new bigger one at the same start blocks. And then resize the FS. Then it actually makes sense why i ended up with another UUID.
Ahhhh I see now, that explains it. 😃 Yeah it's not a bad method if you need to resize a partition in place, but you need to be super careful to restore all the partition parameters like sector size etc. exactly the same. And ofc to restore the previous UUID from inside the partition editor (fdisk or gpt) or with tune2fs -U.
For future reference it's best to use parted instead, which will take care of everything for you. Best to boot into a GParted live stick for any operations on essential partitions, not to do it on the live system. Same thing for copying partitions, use a Clonezilla live stick. With Ventoy you can make a USB stick with several such tools on it, you just install Ventoy and then drop ISO files on the stick.
Jep. I really would not recommend doing it that way, but when i saw that method i wanted to try it out. Had a full disc backup done before that anyway.