SUMMARY It would be good to be able to move partitions of unknown type. I needed to move out of the way my microsoft reserved partition (16MiB) to be able to grow my Linux partiton. With kde partition manager it is impossible. But I successfully did it with gparted. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Find a gap in your storage device. 2. Create an unformatted partition there, making its size less than gap 3. Try to move this partition OBSERVED RESULT Function is not available EXPECTED RESULT Ability to move expected SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.55.0 Qt Version: 5.12.1
Well, in principle this can be added. But then there is a risk that we incorrectly move some partition of unknown type. Not msft-reserved as this partition is just a blank partition but e.g. FAT/NTFS need extra adjustments after move (I think update boot sector location), gparted probably doesn't do that but I haven't checked recently.
As I remember, gparted shows a warning that windows may be unbootable after moving, so I guess that it doesn't make adjustments. Yes, need to check that. Anyway, specifically for msr we may allow moving.
Git commit ecb78121f36d6e30e164e5ea7f3145504765f48a by Andrius Štikonas. Committed on 15/02/2019 at 19:16. Pushed by stikonas into branch 'master'. Allow moving partitions of unknown type. This usually be safe. There is a theoretical chance that some unknown OS fails to boot, but I'm not aware of any such cases. M +3 -0 src/fs/unknown.cpp M +7 -2 src/fs/unknown.h https://invent.kde.org/kde/kpmcore/commit/ecb78121f36d6e30e164e5ea7f3145504765f48a
Is it released? I still cannot move partitions of unknown fs type. KPMcore 4.0.1 KDE Partition Manager 4.0.0 OS ArchLinux
Hmm, the commit was done before release. So it should have been released. I'll have to investigate this again...
Git commit 4819eec59b96bc73e5444f8bf29365884d647327 by Andrius Štikonas. Committed on 04/10/2020 at 20:18. Pushed by stikonas into branch 'master'. Allow moving partitions with unknown file system. M +1 -1 src/fs/unknown.cpp https://invent.kde.org/system/kpmcore/commit/4819eec59b96bc73e5444f8bf29365884d647327
(In reply to Ashark from comment #4) > Is it released? I still cannot move partitions of unknown fs type. > KPMcore 4.0.1 > KDE Partition Manager 4.0.0 > OS ArchLinux Ok, fixed now, will be in 4.2.0 soon. It was a stupid copy-paste error.