Can't resize my exFAT partition
I have an exFAT partition that I can't resize, with GParted nor Ubuntu Disks.
Here is what I see with Disks
And GParted shows this warning when I display the information of this device:
Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable.
I tried running Gparted with sudo -i gparted
, this does not change anything.
This device is not read-only, I can delete files if I want.
I tried running sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb3
and here is the result:
Mounting volume... NTFS signature is missing.
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors... NTFS signature is missing.
FAILED
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument
NTFS signature is missing.
Trying the alternate boot sector
Unrecoverable error
Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk.
(PS: I'm open to suggestion if there is a better file system to share files between Linux/Windows/MacOS)
Solution 1:
As pointed out in the comments, it's hard (impossible?) to resize an exFAT partition in Ubuntu.
I managed to resize my partition with the use of DiskGenius, as advised in these SuperUser answers: https://superuser.com/questions/511819/resize-exfat-hard-drive & https://superuser.com/questions/393132/shrink-exfat-partition