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You just need to run off a live distro to do it.

• LoganDark 3y ago
  That's my point. You can't just download and run gparted to resize your root partition, you need to boot from somewhere else in order to do that.
  • wubrr 3y ago
    You can also set up gparted live to be bootable from GRUB from the same drive.
    • LoganDark 3y ago
      That's true, it's not uncommon for me to install Linux by flashing the installer to a small partition on the same disk as the actual install destination. Quite useful for dual/triple-boot without actually requiring any USB flash drives.
  • justinclift 3y ago
    Is it really that hard to boot from external media on the odd occasion of doing stuff like this?
    • LoganDark 3y ago
      No, no it's not.