[ale] what should I do when resizing ext4 partition

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a machine which dual boots windows and mint.  The 500 gb hdd is
> mbr with 4 primary partitions, ntfs windows, ext4 mint, linux swap,
> and ntfs data.  I'm cloning the drive to a 1 tb wd drive with WD
> Acronis true image.  This will automatically proportionally resize the
> partitions to the larger size.  I know what to do with windows to make
> sure it's compatible after I reboot on the new drive.  However, is
> there anything I should do with mint to make sure it boots properly
> and doesn't damage the mint os or other parts of the drive?  As far as
> I can tell, the swap file will not be changed.  As far as I can tell,
> the partition order will remain the same, but the boundaries will
> change.  When I'm done, I'll check it to make sure everything is on 1
> MB boundaries, but the WD Acronis program should do that
> automatically.
>
> Any help is appreciated.

Once you repartition you'll need to re-install Grub.  I don't think
Acronis will do that for you.  Beyond that, everything else should be
fine.

> Sincerely,
>
> Ron

-derek

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