[GLLUG] Fwd: Re: Partition Resizing

[Craig Weaver]

+1 on Ultimate boot CD.  I have used this in conjunction with gparted
successfully in the past.

Craig

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Jeff Lawton <jeff at idealso.com> wrote:

> The ultimate boot cd has parted magic distro on it including gparted.
> http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
>
> Jeff Lawton
> Ideal Solution, LLC517-485-2650 ext 220jeff at idealso.comhttp://www.idealso.com
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>  On 01/07/2016 08:31 AM, Robert Youngs, Jr. wrote:
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> Agreed. I like using gparted on a live CD/USB and have always had good
> results with it.
>
> Robert
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> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Partition
> Resizing Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 08:28:24 -0500 From: Patrick Goupell
> <patrick at upmerchants.com> <patrick at upmerchants.com> To:
> linux-user at egr.msu.edu
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> 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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