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I was looking at this comment and Marty Fried says "In fact, you can't even do anything to any partition with a lower number than a mounted partition." referring to changing sizes of this partitions.

Since I didn't want to make unrelated comments to that answer I decided to ask a new question here.

Why can't changes to partitions with number bellow the mounted one be done? I understand why changes in the mounted one can't be done, but not this.

Thanks!

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Marty may be generalizing. You can make changes to partitions before a mounted partition that do not affect the mounted partition. So you can shrink them, but not expand. enter image description here

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