📚 resize NON efi partition and flash to usb

good morning/ afternoon/ night wherever you may be, can anyone here help with these issues. im currently running linux mint 21.1 cinnamon on imac mid 2011

:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz

System:

Kernel: 5.15.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0

Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.8 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0

Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

Machine:

Type: Desktop System: Apple product: iMac12,1 v: 1.0

serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 13 v: Mac-942B5BF58194151B

serial: <superuser required>

Mobo: Apple model: Mac-942B5BF58194151B serial: <superuser required>

UEFI: Apple v: 87.0.0.0.0 date: 06/14/2019

CPU:

Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-2400S bits: 64 type: MCP

smt: <unsupported> arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 cache: L1: 256 KiB

L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 1596 high: 1597 min/max: 1600/3300 cores: 1: 1596

2: 1596 3: 1596 4: 1597 bogomips: 19955

Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

Graphics:

Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics

driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: none empty: VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0

chip-ID: 8086:0102 class-ID: 0380

Device-2: AMD Whistler [Radeon HD 6630M/6650M/6750M/7670M/7690M]

vendor: Apple driver: radeon v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:

active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, VGA-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0

chip-ID: 1002:6741 class-ID: 0300

Device-3: Apple FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) type: USB driver: uvcvideo

bus-ID: 1-2:3 chip-ID: 05ac:850b class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X:

loaded: ati,modesetting,radeon unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: radeon

display-ID: :0 screens: 1

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")

s-diag: 582mm (22.9")

Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 103

size: 475x267mm (18.7x10.5") diag: 545mm (21.5")

OpenGL: renderer: AMD TURKS (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.15.0-67-generic LLVM 15.0.6)

v: 3.3 Mesa 22.2.5 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes

Audio:

Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio

driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1c20

class-ID: 0403

Device-2: AMD Turks HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500/6600 / 6700M Series]

vendor: Apple driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16

bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aa90 class-ID: 0403

Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-67-generic running: yes

Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes

Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes

Network:

Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3

v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 02:00.0

chip-ID: 14e4:16b4 class-ID: 0200

IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>

Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter

vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme driver: ath9k v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s

lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0030 class-ID: 0280

IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>

IF-ID-1: nordlynx state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A

Bluetooth:

Device-1: Apple Built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR HCI type: USB driver: btusb

v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-1.1.1:5 chip-ID: 05ac:8215 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>

Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>

bt-v: 1.2 lmp-v: 2.1 sub-v: 21d0 hci-v: 2.1 rev: 206

Drives:

Local Storage: total: 942.7 GiB used: 564.33 GiB (59.9%)

ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AAKS-402AA0

size: 465.76 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>

rev: 1D02 scheme: GPT

ID-2: /dev/sdc type: USB model: Best Buy NS-PCNVMEHDE -C size: 476.94 GiB

type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 7202 scheme: GPT

Partition:

ID-1: / size: 456.89 GiB used: 282.05 GiB (61.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2

ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat

dev: /dev/sda1

Swap:

ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 452.2 MiB (22.1%) priority: -2

file: /swapfile

Sensors:

System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A

Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1199

Repos:

Packages: 2305 apt: 2271 flatpak: 16 snap: 18

No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nordvpn.list

1: deb https://repo.nordvpn.com//deb/nordvpn/debian stable main

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

1: deb https://mirror.clarkson.edu/linuxmint-packages vera main upstream import backport

2: deb http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse

3: deb http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse

4: deb http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse

Info:

Processes: 312 Uptime: 2h 44m wakeups: 0 Memory: 3.81 GiB

used: 2.61 GiB (68.6%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:

gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal

inxi: 3.3.13

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as well as on a lenovo y510p i7-4700mq 2.4ghz-3.4ghz with 8 gb of ram

im trying to resize an exfat partition on a external drive. ive tried disks as well as gparted, both have failed me or i have failed them depending on how you look at it. i have exfat-fuse and exfat-progs already installed, also gparted live didn't work either in case thats the suggestion ..... windows disk management can handle this task, but i would like to eventually be windows free so this is still problematic

part 2 on my journey to resize a exfat partition i tried using gparted live from a usb stick, however for some odd reason neither of my linux machines was able to flash or burn the image to the jump drive. i tried both usb writer, as well as etcher, they both completed but were not usable. Now on my windows laptop i can flash using rufus flawlessly ....... yes yes yes i know this is not windows so things are going to be different, and i need to change how i think to do similar tasks on linux, but i know for a fact that that you can flash a usb stick on lunux ......... sorry for rambling on im new to linux and dont have much experience asking for help in forums, i hope this is enough information to atleast get pointed in the right direction

thanks in advance -mike