February 8, 20233 yr Hi there, I know this is kinda Linux question, but I am not sure will it be slightly different since I use those partitions with Unassigned Devices. Here are my partitions: I don't quite remember how did I do this partitioning back then. sdj is a 2TB hard disk. All paritions are having xfs as the file system. sdj1 is having size of 1.1TB sdj2 is having size of 0.9TB Since I have around 530GB free space in sdj2, I would like to shrink sdj2, and expand sdj1. I assume this would take a while as those sectors are needed to be free before reallocating... Would anyone please provide some guidance and commands to do so? Million thanks! Edited March 3, 20233 yr by PzrrL solved
February 10, 20233 yr Community Expert Solution Would create a VM, pass it the disk and a gparted live iso and do the resizing there.
February 11, 20233 yr Author Thanks for the input, is there any possible pure linux command directly from unraid?
March 3, 20233 yr Author Thanks @Kilrah, it turns out to be the easiest solution for me. I just overthinking a bit and thought I need to install another VM with OS (and actually I don't need). However, since XFS does not support shrinking, I am out of luck Ref for Gparted supported file system, and possible actions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GParted#Supported_features A note for my future self: Make sure the disk (the whole disks with all volumes) is not mounted in unRAID, I was not able to unmount some of the volumes, and just stop the array, turn off auto mount for the specific unassigned devices, mark it as passthrough, and viola! Create a VM, mount the disk as vdisk by /dev/disk/by-id/ata-somethingsomething (ref: ), and also mount the gparted live iso Edited March 3, 20233 yr by PzrrL note to my future self
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