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Thanks - that took a long time and I learned it is better to copy sections at a time.

One other note - I ran into (what looks like a common problem) that after copied the file is owned by ROOT so it can't be viewed or deleted by USER.

Google quickly led me to posts about changing ownership ...

Okay - I hate to ask - but I just want to be extra careful

This is the result of the Dmesg

[ 3714.528222] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
[ 3714.638228] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1376, idProduct=3070
[ 3714.638234] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr ...

So let me tell ya from the beginning

I had 2 450GB partitions on a 1 TB drive. I emptied out one of the partitions and then decided to delete the empty partition, extend the other partition using Gparted.

I didn't realize the laptop was not plugged in - I came back a while later and the laptop ...