[GLLUG] Partition Resizing

Patrick Goupell patrick at upmerchants.com
Thu Jan 7 08:28:24 EST 2016


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.
>
> 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?
>
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