On 3/28/21 7:30 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:

For any future issues you might want to take a look at gparted. You can resize and reformat disk volumes with comparative ease. I've used it many times without losing data and without having to resort to my backups.

Gparted gives me problems when formatting USB drives that need to boot. If you partition a USB drive with "fdisk" and with "gparted" and compare the MBR, you will see gparted puts lots of data into MBR whereas fdisk modifies just the partition table.