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guys how do I expand the purple partition into unallocated
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@georgia easiest with little breakage is formatting it btrfs and using it either as a mount to e.g. move /home to it or as /backup mount or something.
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@kaia I wish you had said that sooner my puter is soft bricked
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1. Do it from a LiveUSB
2. Move the small partitions out of the way (to the front of the disk)

there's a small chance your bootloader won't work anymore if you move the /boot, just keep a liveUSB ready, it should be rescuable with a few magic mounts, chroot, and a grub-install (or whatever else you use)

that said though, make sure you don't have anything important on that disk in case shit fucks up, the usual
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@kaia all I did was unallocate one partition I left the boot partition, why did this happen
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@georgia Move everything to the left and then resize the purple one into the unallocated space it will have next to it on the left. Also backup your data before doing that.
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@phnt fortunately I didnt really have any data. I'm just going to take it into an apple store and pay to have them fix this. at least that way I'll get apple back, and then I can not make the mistake I made this time.
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@georgia @lain
if you don't want MacOS back, maybe boot into Fedora USB, save all your data to external SSD and install Fedora again on the entire system?
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@kaia @lain I dont know how to boot into a USB. there is no grub, there is no boot options. it says "loading options" but then theres just a link to apple support
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@kaia @lain not sure, its a macbook air m2 from 2022 with 24 gb ram and 1 tb battery
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@georgia @kaia i think you need a second mac to restore it, if you can't boot into the restore environment you can't activate boot from usb. you probably need to put it in DFU mode and restore that way
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@lain @kaia yeah thats what the link says. well at least this way I can make dual booting work for real and not install two instances of fedora (I know what I did wrong, I let go of the power button too soon when restarting)
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@georgia @lain @kaia Gone are the days where you could put a DVD into a drive, hold option, power on and that was how you installed Linux on a Mac I see.
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