gariac

The "entertaining" thing is after I did the restore, the unallocated space was still there. Incidentally I had to use supergrub to boot into linux. The windows boot worked fine. So the UUID issue might be there but since the unallocated problem wasn't solved, I didn't spend any time on the linux boot. So gparted wipes the partition when converting back and from fat32 to ext4. I suspected as much which is why I did the backup. Since I have a functional windows OS I tried to expand the partition with...

The background story here is gparted cannot resize a partition smaller than 256MB. I am providing the links for reference but this obviously isn't my question: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649324 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gparted/-/issues?label_name%5B%5D=3.+Not+GNOME&show=eyJpaWQiOiIyNDUiLCJmdWxsX3BhdGgiOiJHTk9NRS9ncGFydGVkIiwiaWQiOjE5NTM3OH0%3D So I plan on using clonezilla to copy just the /boot/efi to a flash drive. Note I have successfully cloned the whole ssd to an external...