26 Sep
2025
26 Sep
'25
6:29 p.m.
On Fri, 26 Sept 2025 at 19:25, AlphaLynx <alphalynx@alphalynx.dev> wrote:
On 9/26/25 1:18 AM, wtada233 wrote:
You can try to backup /boot first and boot a live USB (e.g., Ubuntu or GParted Live). Then open GParted, shrink / (root), and expand /boot to 1GB. And you can reboot to os. This is safer than tweaking mkinitcpio.conf. Your Intel GPU (i915) will work fine—no need to add xe.
I would advise against resizing partitions, since it could risk data loss.
Yes I too had to read his message twice because it looked topsy turvy to me, not to mention "shrinking" filesystems isn't easily done on some filesystems, especially not if you're on xfs