[GLLUG] Partition Resizing

[Charles Ulrich]

On 01/06/2016 07:34 PM, bfdamkoehler wrote:
> If you are running a Debian system like raspbian it saves a copy of each
> package that you install in /var/cache/apt.

Yup. "apt-get clean" will make short work of the apt cache.

> I do think that to resize an ext4 filesystem it has to be unmounted.
> Since you can't umount / and keep running, this means that you would
> have to boot from another device to do this.

Ext2-4 (and XFS, and possibly others) can be safely grown online, but 
you typically have to unmount them to shrink them.

Thanks,
Charles