So in the past week living with Plasma, it exceeded my expectations & requirments. So I wanted to continue to windows exodus & allocate more space to solus for more of my files & media. Things didn't go well for the Solus side of my machine.
I shrank 75gb more from my windows partition, and then booted up Solus in a live ISO to access Partition Manage. I move the unallocated 75gb behind my Solus partition (it had been infront/ontop) but i read that it needed to be behind in order to expand it. I moved the partition, then it allowed me to drag & expand into the free space. So i did these 2 action in KDE Partition Manager & clicked apply to implement them
The first action succeeded & moved the unallocated space from on directly above (infront of) the Solus partition to directly below/behind. As it started the next process of expanding into the unallocated 75gb it said errors occued & was aborted. I closed partition manager, powered off my machine & removed usb to do a status check. Windows booted fine. I went through boot loader and chose Linux loader as always, but it failed to Boot solus, it loaded a black screen with text in the top left saying something about a broken shell / exit & something about re-loading or save the USB. I powered down my machine after a few minutes sitting at that screen incase something happened. Nothing did.
Clearly my attempted expansion messed up my initial Solus install. I just booted up the live ISO again & opened up KDE partition manager to check where things were. The new unallocated space is below the Solus parition, just like my action intented it to do. Everything else looks the same as before i attempted anything, so im just wondering best way to proceed next.
Also, In the live ISO & partition manager this time, It wont let me click & drag the parition to expand it like in my previous attempt. It only lets me move & the partition back to the space i moved it from in the first place.
Should I just re-install need to re-install, solus. if so how can i include the unallocated space so i can reach my desired size.. Worse comes to worse i'd be happy enough going back to as I was. Maybe I got a little ambition for just a week into things.
I already dred the potential thought of having to get back to working on windows this coming week if I cant get my act together here.