<div dir="ltr">+1 on Ultimate boot CD. I have used this in conjunction with gparted successfully in the past.<div><br></div><div>Craig </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Jeff Lawton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff@idealso.com" target="_blank">jeff@idealso.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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The ultimate boot cd has parted magic distro on it including
gparted. <a href="http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/</a><br>
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<div>On 01/07/2016 08:31 AM, Robert Youngs,
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<div>Agreed. I like using gparted on
a live CD/USB and have always had good results with it.<br>
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Robert<br>
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<pre>I allso use gparted all the time and highly recommend it.
On 01/06/2016 03:39 PM, Tom McArthur wrote:
> I have used gparted to resize existing partitions several times, and
> I've never lost data or encountered any data corruptions.
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> Even though I've never needed them, I always take backups beforehand.
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> Tom
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> On 01/06/2016 01:33 PM, Chick Tower wrote:
>> The ext4 root (/, not user) partition of my PC is 94% full, so I want
>> to add space to it. I don't have LVM running, so that's not a
>> solution. I could back-up that partition, destroy it, re-create it
>> in a larger size, format it, and restore the data, but I'd rather try
>> to leave the data intact, back it up, and just expand the partition
>> and then the filesystem. Has anyone ever used resize2fs to expand
>> the filesystem? If so, did it leave the data intact?
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>> I also know I could create new partitions for /var, and maybe other
>> parts of the installation. /home is already on a separate partition.
>> It also appears that parted/gparted can do what I want, so I'm going
>> to check that out. Are there any other solutions I'm missing?
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