Gparted Can't Resize Kali Partition Running From USB

[justin-goldberg]

I installed the Kali ISO onto a usb drive using the Linux USB creator, and now I can't resize my root partition with gparted.

Mount shows that it is mounted as iso9660 filesystem:

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=216459,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=207160k,mode=755)
/dev/sdb1 on /lib/live/mount/medium type iso9660 (ro,noatime)
/dev/loop0 on /lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs type squashfs (ro,noatime)
tmpfs on /lib/live/mount/overlay type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /lib/live/mount/overlay type tmpfs (rw,noatime,mode=755)
aufs on / type aufs (rw,relatime,si=d1017ccc,noxino)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=414300k)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/sdb2 on /media/persistence type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks)

Is there a better way to create a usb installation and then be able to use gparted to resize it?

Gparted does work on the usb device as I was able to shrink the ext4 persistence fs with it.

[ikeburna]

whats up man?? i was having the same issue, i am using a 30 gb usb and just used the remaining for persistence, but for some reason i cant DL virtual box or anything, keeps saying not enough space on device, so i just went into Gparted and unmounted then formatted just the partition part of the drive and restarted, booted back up with no persistence and my usb was free again to create a new smaller partition lol...hope this helps...

[mttmm]

That's the way it is, you could never modify files in use. I ran into this issue also, the solution is to make another live boot (cd or usb, it doesn't matter), boot it, then plug in your usb and use gparted.

[maverik35]

I installed the Kali ISO onto a usb drive using the Linux USB creator, and now I can't resize my root partition with gparted.

Mount shows that it is mounted as iso9660 filesystem:

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=216459,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=207160k,mode=755)
/dev/sdb1 on /lib/live/mount/medium type iso9660 (ro,noatime)
/dev/loop0 on /lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs type squashfs (ro,noatime)
tmpfs on /lib/live/mount/overlay type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /lib/live/mount/overlay type tmpfs (rw,noatime,mode=755)
aufs on / type aufs (rw,relatime,si=d1017ccc,noxino)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=414300k)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/sdb2 on /media/persistence type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks)

Is there a better way to create a usb installation and then be able to use gparted to resize it?

Gparted does work on the usb device as I was able to shrink the ext4 persistence fs with it.

You need to unmount partition to modify it..That is a basic concept...