Hello! I have a 215Gb fat32 partition on my external SSD, and a 100Gb unallocated space right next to it, and I’s like to extend it to 315Gb. So, on KDE partition manager, I right-click on the fat32 partition, select “resize/move”, and this is the windows that pops up:

as you can see, the textbox with the size is grayed out, so I can only move the partition, but not resize it. Why? the device is not mounted of course, and I can operate on other partitions without problems.

thanks in advance!

  • Lvxferre
    3·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know much about exFAT, besides the fact that it’s encumbered by Microsoft patents.

    • SteveTech@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I believe Microsoft published the spec and opened up the patents for exfat a while ago. So Linux has had a pretty good exfat driver from Samsung since Kernel 5.7.

      • Lvxferre
        4·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for the info - as I mentioned, I don’t know much about it. And frankly I never saw a point on using it, I usually go with ext4 > NTFS > FAT32.