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I wanted to expand disk for Ubuntu 18.04 on my dual boot acer. Everything was running smoothly but it needed some extra space because I gave it initially only 20 GB.

So I sliced another 40 GB in windows Disk manager. In Linux GParted, I added disk as sda7 ext4 and mounted it. But it didn't acted as I expected when I wanted to install something it still hadn't enough space.

And from there I really messed up. I re-wrote partition tables according to this procedure: https://www.ryadel.com/en/resize-extend-disk-partition-unallocated-disk-space-linux-centos-rhel-ubuntu-debian/

And after reboot it is going only to GRUB 2.04.

Below is boot-repair report:

boot-repair-4ppa125                                              [20220205_1207]

============================== Boot Info Summary ===============================

=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda. => Syslinux MBR (3.61-4.03) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.

sda1: __________________________________________________________________________

File system:       ntfs
Boot sector type:  Windows 8/2012: NTFS
Boot sector info:  According to the info in the boot sector, sda1 starts 
                   at sector 0. But according to the info from fdisk, 
                   sda1 starts at sector 2048.
Operating System:  
Boot files:        

sda2: __________________________________________________________________________

File system:       vfat
Boot sector type:  Windows 8/2012: FAT32
Boot sector info:  According to the info in the boot sector, sda2 starts 
                   at sector 0. But according to the info from fdisk, 
                   sda2 starts at sector 1230848.
Operating System:  
Boot files:        /efi/Boot/bootx64.efi /efi/Boot/fbx64.efi 
                   /efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/mmx64.efi 
                   /efi/ubuntu/shimx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg 
                   /efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi 
                   /efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgr.efi 
                   /efi/Microsoft/Boot/memtest.efi 
                   /efi/OEM/Boot/bootmgfw.efi /efi/OEM/Boot/bootmgr.efi 
                   /efi/OEM/Boot/memtest.efi

sda3: __________________________________________________________________________

File system:       
Boot sector type:  -
Boot sector info: 

sda4: __________________________________________________________________________

File system:       ntfs
Boot sector type:  Windows 8/2012: NTFS
Boot sector info:  According to the info in the boot sector, sda4 starts 
                   at sector 0. But according to the info from fdisk, 
                   sda4 starts at sector 2107392.
Operating System:  Windows 10
Boot files:        /Windows/System32/winload.exe

sda5: __________________________________________________________________________

File system:       ntfs
Boot sector type:  Windows 8/2012: NTFS
Boot sector info:  According to the info in the boot sector, sda5 starts 
                   at sector 0. But according to the info from fdisk, 
                   sda5 starts at sector 1919410176.
Operating System:  
Boot files:        

sda6: __________________________________________________________________________

File system:       ext4
Boot sector type:  -
Boot sector info: 
Operating System:  
Boot files:        

sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________

File system:       vfat
Boot sector type:  SYSLINUX 4.03 2010-10-22 ........>..sr>........._7...0...~.....~...f...M.f.f....f..0~....>E}.u......
Boot sector info:  Syslinux looks at sector 15258136 of /dev/sdb1 for 
                   its second stage. SYSLINUX is installed in the  
                   directory. No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:  
Boot files:        /boot/grub/grub.cfg /syslinux.cfg 
                   /efi/BOOT/grubx64.efi /ldlinux.sys


================================ 1 OS detected =================================

OS#1: Windows 10 on sda4

============================ Architecture/Host Info ============================

CPU architecture: 64-bit Live-session OS is Ubuntu 64-bit (Boot-Repair-Disk 64bit 20200604, bionic, x86_64)

===================================== UEFI =====================================

BIOS is EFI-compatible, and is setup in EFI-mode for this live-session. SecureBoot disabled.

efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: 0002 Timeout: 0 seconds BootOrder: 2001,0003,0000,0001,2002,2003 Boot0000* Yes PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1f,0x2)/Sata(5,0,0)/HD(2,GPT,196fe452-8af1-4ce2-bb34-d2c3adfe387e,0x12c800,0x96000)/File(\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi)A01 .. Boot0001* ubuntu HD(2,GPT,196fe452-8af1-4ce2-bb34-d2c3adfe387e,0x12c800,0x96000)/File(\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi) Boot0002* USB HDD: VendorCoProductCode PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x0)/USB(0,0)/HD(1,MBR,0x29baf10,0x40,0xefffc0)RC Boot0003* Windows Boot Manager HD(2,GPT,196fe452-8af1-4ce2-bb34-d2c3adfe387e,0x12c800,0x96000)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS.........x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}.................... Boot2001* EFI USB Device RC Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM RC Boot2003* EFI Network RC

728124f6ec8e22fbdbe7034812c81b95 sda2/Boot/bootx64.efi 5dabe049a4dad758d975dc2e60a7f00e sda2/Boot/fbx64.efi 621356d82b109cd860ad92cdf241c58b sda2/ubuntu/grubx64.efi f243a42f3bd3164872e792dbc2610270 sda2/ubuntu/mmx64.efi 728124f6ec8e22fbdbe7034812c81b95 sda2/ubuntu/shimx64.efi 88d8877ed3e6c65fe091f4fe40c8beff sda2/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi 9804a5af3899975c598d2e323c04ed87 sda2/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgr.efi bad97e7203aec2bd026403a7f70688b9 sda2/OEM/Boot/bootmgfw.efi 976a6ef4ad76d6f70c6c357a93f0fd47 sda2/OEM/Boot/bootmgr.efi

============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================

Disks info: ____________________________________________________________________

sda : is-GPT, no-BIOSboot, has---ESP, not-usb, not-mmc, has-os, 2048 sectors * 512 bytes

Partitions info (1/3): _________________________________________________________

sda1 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, not-far sda2 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, not-far sda4 : is-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, farbios sda5 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, farbios sda6 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, farbios

Partitions info (2/3): _________________________________________________________

sda1 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, recovery-or-hidden, no-bmgr, notwinboot sda2 : is---ESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot sda4 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, haswinload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot sda5 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, recovery-or-hidden, no-bmgr, notwinboot sda6 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot

Partitions info (3/3): _________________________________________________________

sda1 : not-sepboot, no-boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sda sda2 : not-sepboot, no-boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sda sda4 : not-sepboot, no-boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sda sda5 : not-sepboot, no-boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sda sda6 : maybesepboot, no-boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sda

fdisk -l (filtered): ___________________________________________________________

Disk sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Disk identifier: E21C3F18-DAE5-4654-AB4F-FAD7617B691E Start End Sectors Size Type sda1 2048 1230847 1228800 600M Windows recovery environment sda2 1230848 1845247 614400 300M EFI System sda3 1845248 2107391 262144 128M Microsoft reserved sda4 2107392 1794564095 1792456704 854.7G Microsoft basic data sda5 1919410176 1953523711 34113536 16.3G Windows recovery environment sda6 1794564096 1919410175 124846080 59.5G Linux filesystem Partition table entries are not in disk order. Disk sdb: 7.5 GiB, 8053063680 bytes, 15728640 sectors Disk identifier: 0x029baf10 Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type sdb1 * 64 15728639 15728576 7.5G c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Disk zram0: 985.5 MiB, 1033338880 bytes, 252280 sectors Disk zram1: 985.5 MiB, 1033338880 bytes, 252280 sectors Disk zram2: 985.5 MiB, 1033338880 bytes, 252280 sectors Disk zram3: 985.5 MiB, 1033338880 bytes, 252280 sectors

parted -lm (filtered): _________________________________________________________

sda:1000GB:scsi:512:512:gpt:ATA Samsung SSD 870:; 1:1049kB:630MB:629MB:ntfs::hidden, diag; 2:630MB:945MB:315MB:fat32::boot, esp; 3:945MB:1079MB:134MB::Microsoft reserved partition:msftres; 4:1079MB:919GB:918GB:ntfs:Basic data partition:msftdata; 6:919GB:983GB:63.9GB:ext4::; 5:983GB:1000GB:17.5GB:ntfs::hidden, diag; sdb:8053MB:scsi:512:512:msdos:VendorCo ProductCode:; 1:32.8kB:8053MB:8053MB:fat32::boot, lba; zram3:1033MB:unknown:4096:4096:loop:Unknown:; 1:0.00B:1033MB:1033MB:linux-swap(v1)::; zram1:1033MB:unknown:4096:4096:loop:Unknown:; 1:0.00B:1033MB:1033MB:linux-swap(v1)::; zram2:1033MB:unknown:4096:4096:loop:Unknown:; 1:0.00B:1033MB:1033MB:linux-swap(v1)::; zram0:1033MB:unknown:4096:4096:loop:Unknown:; 1:0.00B:1033MB:1033MB:linux-swap(v1)::;

blkid (filtered): ______________________________________________________________

NAME FSTYPE UUID PARTUUID LABEL PARTLABEL sda
├─sda1 ntfs 2E40A63140A60027 383a5d99-3fe4-465c-84e1-5b315e2f6051 Recovery Basic data partition ├─sda2 vfat E6A8-2CAF 196fe452-8af1-4ce2-bb34-d2c3adfe387e ESP EFI system partition ├─sda3 c2cd845d-e34d-4b06-98d2-54f698c27834 Microsoft reserved partition ├─sda4 ntfs FA1E8A891E8A3E9F d860a256-1fe8-4e96-9a49-4eab95441b66 Acer Basic data partition ├─sda5 ntfs 6C7EAC187EABD8DA b8d1d4ae-24ee-418b-8e66-98f485a9414f Push Button Reset Basic data partition └─sda6 ext4 4b8f8c0e-f755-4ab9-bd2f-b4cb9147f989 1d57bc32-c0e1-754c-9ad2-7a178beb285e
sdb
└─sdb1 vfat CE4E-68A9 029baf10-01
zram0
zram1
zram2
zram3

df (filtered): _________________________________________________________________

   Avail Use% Mounted on

sda1 315.7M 47% /mnt/boot-sav/sda1 sda2 241.8M 18% /mnt/boot-sav/sda2 sda4 99.4G 88% /mnt/boot-sav/sda4 sda5 847.4M 95% /mnt/boot-sav/sda5 sda6 37.1G 0% /mnt/boot-sav/sda6 sdb1 6.6G 12% /cdrom

Mount options: __________________________________________________________________

sda1 rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 sda2 rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro sda4 rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 sda5 rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 sda6 rw,relatime sdb1 ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro

===================== sda2/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================

search.fs_uuid ede1e272-fb1d-4582-a4d7-b18262720996 root hd0,gpt6 set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub' configfile $prefix/grub.cfg

====================== sdb1/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================

Boot-Repair-Disk session Boot-Repair-Disk session (failsafe)

========================= sdb1/syslinux.cfg (filtered) =========================

default menu.c32 prompt 0 menu title UNetbootin timeout 100

label unetbootindefault menu label Default kernel /ubnkern append initrd=/ubninit file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---

label ubnentry0 menu label ^Help kernel /ubnkern append initrd=/ubninit

label ubnentry1 menu label ^64bit session kernel /casper/vmlinuz append initrd=/casper/initrd file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---

label ubnentry2 menu label ^64bit session (failsafe) kernel /casper/vmlinuz append initrd=/casper/initrd file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper noapic noapm nodma nomce nolapic nomodeset nosmp vga=normal ---

label ubnentry3 menu label Boot-Repair-Disk session kernel /casper/vmlinuz append initrd=/casper/initrd file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --

label ubnentry4 menu label Boot-Repair-Disk session (failsafe) kernel /casper/vmlinuz append initrd=/casper/initrd file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper noapic noapm nodma nomce nolapic nomodeset nosmp vga=normal --

==================== sdb1: Location of files loaded by Grub ====================

       GiB - GB             File                                 Fragment(s)
        ?? = ??             boot/grub/grub.cfg                             1

================== sdb1: Location of files loaded by Syslinux ==================

       GiB - GB             File                                 Fragment(s)
        ?? = ??             syslinux.cfg                                   1
        ?? = ??             ldlinux.sys                                    1
        ?? = ??             menu.c32                                       1

=============== sdb1: Version of COM32(R) files used by Syslinux ===============

menu.c32 : COM32R module (v4.xx)

=============================== StdErr Messages ================================

File descriptor 63 (pipe:[43699]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 1833: /bin/bash

Suggested repair: ______________________________________________________________

The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility would not act on the MBR. Additional repair would be performed: win-legacy-basic-fix
paste.ubuntu.com ko () paste.debian.net ko ()

Can anyone advise how to boot to Ubuntu again? I see that sda6 is lacking boot sector type, etc. Any advise how to fix it?

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    Please do not post the Report from Boot-Repair. It loses formatting & really cannot be read. Just post link to the report it creates. The link you have does not work. A new partition is not automatically used. You also have to give yourself ownership & permissions to use it. You could move home or just move data to a data partition. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving & https://askubuntu.com/questions/1013677/storing-data-on-second-hdd-mounting discusses partition on second drive, but can be anywhere. – oldfred Feb 05 '22 at 14:34

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Sorry for unnecesary post. Luckily I noted precisely start and end blocks of the two partitions. With live usb ubuntu I reversed the partition tables back. From that linux booted from disk as usual. After that I used live usb and tool gparted to merge unallocated 40 GB disk to existing 20 GB where linux is installed. gparted moved files succesfully and after reboot I have 60 GB for linux available.

  • Welcome to AskUbuntu, charlie and thank you for contributing. I don't know that your question was "unecessary" -- it is ideal that all open questions receive at least one resolving answer (even if it is from the asker) so that researchers don't arrive at a deadend. In the future, please take care to spell words correctly so that online translation software can parse your text properly. – mickmackusa Feb 06 '22 at 06:37