On: A disk so full, it couldn't be restored

[dataflow]

Confused, why didn't you just expand the partition to begin with?

And I feel like that ought to be the lesson for power users: always leave a bit of slack space after your partition.

[entropicgravity → dataflow]

My recollection is that gparted wouldn't allow me to adjust any partitions until I loosened up the available space in the system partition. I guess gparted checks all the partitions to make sure everything is as it should be before it allows changes.