[GLLUG] Partition Resizing

[Tom McArthur]

I have used gparted to resize existing partitions several times, and 
I've never lost data or encountered any data corruptions.

Even though I've never needed them, I always take backups beforehand.

Tom

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?
>
> 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?