How Come Gparted Won't Let Me Resize? [SOLVED]

[Sky Aisling]

How Come Gparted Won't Let Me Resize?
I am attempting to resize sda1 ext 3 from 4gb to 10gb.
I enter new size number but resize function doesn't activate.
What obvious thing am I overlooking?

Thank you in advance.

[Semme]

I'll guess cause your swap's in the way. I'd unallocate it and retry- but that's me.

You may and probably should wait for someone who 'trusts' that sucka. Not moi.

[Karl Godt]

Though your picture shows the swap partition is not in use:
You should use the swapoff command to swapoff the swap partition .

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swapoff /dev/sdX

In your case apparently swapoff /dev/sda2 .
To verify :

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free

and

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cat /proc/swaps

that the partition as Semme's cryptic message says get's usable by gparted in a way to delete it ( Trash icon ) .
Then it should resize .
Then create a new swap partition .
Then make sure to inform the kernel about changes to the partition table in the MBR ( if gparted does not do it by itself ):

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partprobe

Then swapon the new swap parttion :

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swapon /dev/sdaY

Then verify by free and cat /proc/swaps again .

It is also possible to move the swap partition up to the end of the disk rather than deleting and recreating it .

[Burn_IT]

It is also possible to move the swap partition up to the end of the disk rather than deleting and recreating it .

That's the sensible action.

[Sky Aisling]

Removing the swap file worked.
I did "swap off" via GParted.
I did remove swap and recreated it using GParted.

I did this:
Ran Puppy in RAM without a save file (puppy pfix=RAM)
Using Gparted:
deleted swap partition, (select, delete, apply)
selected sda1 ext3, (resize/move, change size, apply)
selected unallocated, (new, size, file system:linux-swap, apply)

It is also possible to move the swap partition up to the end of the disk rather than deleting and recreating it .

That's the sensible action.

Next time,... What is the procedure to move swap file to end of disk?
Will moving swap to end of disk make the system run more efficient?

Thank you for the terminal command lessons, much appreciated.

[Burn_IT]

Not more efficient, but you won't have to move it at a later date- like you have now.
You probably could have just dragged it to the end in Gparted.