KDE Partition Manager "Checking partition before resize/move failed" error

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As the title says, I get an error when trying to increase the size of my /boot partition. I tried doing it multiple times, and a few times KDE Partition Manager just straight up crashed. And the last time it gave me this error.

KDE Partition Manager: SMART Status Report

Date: 16.11.25 11:02
Program version: 25.08.0
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Backend: pmsfdiskbackendplugin (1)
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KDE Frameworks version: 6.17.0
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Machine: Linux nobara 6.16.3-201.nobara.fc42.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Aug 25 16:24:46 UTC 2025 x86_64
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Move partition ‘/dev/nvme0n1p2’ to the left by 500.00 MiB and grow it from 1.00 GiB to 1.49 GiB

Job: Check file system on partition ‘/dev/nvme0n1p2’
Command: e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/nvme0n1p2

Check file system on partition ‘/dev/nvme0n1p2’: Error

Checking partition ‘/dev/nvme0n1p2’ before resize/move failed.

Move partition ‘/dev/nvme0n1p2’ to the left by 500.00 MiB and grow it from 1.00 GiB to 1.49 GiB: Error

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Are you attempting from a live environment and not your running OS?

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At first

I was attempting this on my main OS. I then tried doing the same this on a live USB. It worked, but apparently KDE Partition Manager didn’t resize the file system on /boot/efi, because now I get these errors in fatresize and fsck:

$ sudo fatresize -i /dev/nvme1n1p1
fatresize 1.1.0 (20250116)
part(start=2048, end=1075199, length=1073152)
Error: The file system is bigger than its volume!

$  sudo fsck.vfat -v /dev/nvme1n1p1
fsck.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
Seek to 1073741312:Invalid argument

I tried making the partition size the same way it was before, so that I can shrink the file system first, but I run into the same error that I experienced at first (even on a live USB).
Welp

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I’m not great on manual partitioning for installing OS’s. If I decide I need a larger EFI / boot partition normally I let the OS do the work for the initial partitions, then after install boot into the installed OS once and then boot into the live again and resize the partitions accordingly. Have you attempted with GParted yet?

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I tried using parted before. Just installed gparted and tried to increase the volume of my EFI partition. Got an error saying that the file system is bigger than its volume. Guess I just have to redo the EFI partition or try to find some way to repair it.

I appreciate the advice.

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