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Linux Stack Exchange found this using growpart to fill the unallocated space, atleast won’t have to delete nixos and windows reserved partitions partition - How to recover filesystem and physical size mismatch - Unix &amp; Linux Stack Exchange then came across this solution to use parted basically partition table via parted got updated but resize2fs failed to resize the filesystem simple solution is to update the partition table to the original standard used sudo fdisk -l to read start and end sectors entered parted /dev/nvme0n1 resizepart 4 859174911s gave sector number for perfect granuality Parted - ArchWiki had to e2fsck again this reversed all the destructive changes that I made the day before Kubuntu still wouldn’t boot for some reason the files in /boot vanished backup was there on desktop copied those files from Desktop to /boot started working again even though the boot partition is mounted on /boot/efi, kubuntu had installed the files in /boot which is p4 and /boot/efi is on p1 To boot into kubuntu using the backup files, used this guide: Classic SysAdmin: How to Rescue a Non-booting GRUB 2 on Linux - Linux Foundation grub&gt; 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<li>wanted to shrink <a href="./Kubuntu" class="internal" data-slug="Kubuntu">Kubuntu</a> to make space for <a href="./NixOS" class="internal" data-slug="NixOS">NixOS</a></li>
<li>Maybe the drive was mounted</li>
<li>but still alot of the same issues were observed when searching online regarding kde partition manager</li>
<li>ultimate search term
<ol>
<li>kde partition manager shrink size in superblock and physical size differ</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/565932" class="external alias">filesystems - “Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!” after partition resized - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange</a>
<ol>
<li>According to this answer ran e2fsck, a destructive operation just because I was afraid of the command line and didn’t want to use parted</li>
<li>long process</li>
<li>resize2fs would’ve deleted rest of the partitions</li>
<li>slept</li>
<li>seeked a better solution</li>
<li><a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/761811" class="external alias">filesystems - “Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!” after partition resized - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange</a>
<ol>
<li>found this using growpart to fill the unallocated space, atleast won’t have to delete nixos and windows reserved partitions</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/593910" class="external alias">partition - How to recover filesystem and physical size mismatch - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange</a>
<ol>
<li>then came across this solution to use parted</li>
<li>basically partition table via parted got updated but resize2fs failed to resize the filesystem</li>
<li>simple solution is to update the partition table to the original standard</li>
<li>used <code>sudo fdisk -l</code> to read start and end sectors</li>
<li>entered <code>parted /dev/nvme0n1</code></li>
<li>resizepart 4 859174911s
<ol>
<li>gave sector number for perfect granuality</li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Parted" class="external alias">Parted - ArchWiki</a></li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>had to e2fsck again
<ol>
<li>this reversed all the destructive changes that I made the day before</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Kubuntu still wouldn’t boot</li>
<li>for some reason the files in /boot vanished</li>
<li>backup was there on desktop</li>
<li>copied those files from Desktop to /boot started working again</li>
<li>even though the boot partition is mounted on /boot/efi, kubuntu had installed the files in /boot which is p4 and /boot/efi is on p1</li>
<li>To boot into kubuntu using the backup files, used this guide: <a href="https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/classic-sysadmin-how-to-rescue-a-non-booting-grub-2-on-linux" class="external alias">Classic SysAdmin: How to Rescue a Non-booting GRUB 2 on Linux - Linux Foundation</a></li>
</ol>
<figure data-rehype-pretty-code-figure><pre tabindex="0" data-language="bash" data-theme="github-dark github-light"><code data-language="bash" data-theme="github-dark github-light" style="display:grid;"><span data-line><span style="--shiki-dark:#B392F0;--shiki-light:#6F42C1;">grub></span><span style="--shiki-dark:#9ECBFF;--shiki-light:#032F62;"> set root=</span><span style="--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;--shiki-light:#24292E;">(</span><span style="--shiki-dark:#9ECBFF;--shiki-light:#032F62;">hd0,1</span><span style="--shiki-dark:#E1E4E8;--shiki-light:#24292E;">)</span></span>
<span data-line><span style="--shiki-dark:#B392F0;--shiki-light:#6F42C1;">grub></span><span style="--shiki-dark:#9ECBFF;--shiki-light:#032F62;"> linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-29-generic root=/dev/sda1</span></span>
<span data-line><span style="--shiki-dark:#B392F0;--shiki-light:#6F42C1;">grub></span><span style="--shiki-dark:#9ECBFF;--shiki-light:#032F62;"> initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-29-generic</span></span>
<span data-line><span style="--shiki-dark:#B392F0;--shiki-light:#6F42C1;">grub></span><span style="--shiki-dark:#9ECBFF;--shiki-light:#032F62;"> boot</span></span></code></pre></figure>
<ol>
<li>couldn’t run <code>sudo update-grub</code></li>
<li>did <code>sudo mkidr <whatever had to be made></code></li>
<li>ran after that</li>
<li>on success, it will show that the vmlinuz and initrd images were found</li>
<li><code>sudo grub install /dev/nvme0n1</code></li>
<li>Ran diff -r against backups to make sure there weren’t any destructive changes</li>
<li>Completed 2024-01-11</li>
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