[GLLUG] Fwd: Re: Partition Resizing

[Robert Youngs, Jr.]

Agreed. I like using gparted on a live CD/USB and have always had good 
results with it.

Robert


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Subject: 	Re: [GLLUG] Partition Resizing
Date: 	Thu, 7 Jan 2016 08:28:24 -0500
From: 	Patrick Goupell <patrick at upmerchants.com>
To: 	linux-user at egr.msu.edu



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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