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I'm hoping not to be forced to format it... but why isn't it making me extend the partition at the end, using the 4.01Mb unallocated space?
Depending on the block size the filesystem may not be able to use that 4.01Mb of unallocated space. There’s always wasted space with any file system because they have to make a trade off between making use of the available space and fast access.
thanks for the reply! I'll try to move it first then