So I have an SSD that has 500GB and the way I have it partitioned my home drive is too small. I had planned on using my 3TB HDD for a VM Partition but I guess I need to take 1TB to add to my /Home directory. As long as I’m at it, how would I attach the remaining 2 TB as a /Virt partition? If I run l…

I tried to use LVM and wound up slaughtering my Windows & Linux installs. :sob: so while reinstalling Windows I used the disk manager to get rid of the LVM groups (couldn’t do it in Linux) and reinstalled both Windows and Linux. I learned a new trick though, using “manual partitioning” in Debian, I …

Extending a partition to a different disk

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tmick (Tim Mcconnell) September 19, 2025, 5:00pm 3

UPDATE:
I reinstalled the system with LVM and I’m working on adding logical volumes to the 5GB disk from the 3TB disk. Wish me luck, fstab is being stubborn

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Extending a partition to a different disk

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