[wplug] Partition Resizing

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

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On Sunday 12 January 2003 01:16, Michael E Uhl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm pretty new to this list, I've been reading for a couple months,
> but I just came across a question where I could use some help.
>
> I need to enlarge an existing ext3 partition on my system.  I have
> the room on the hard disk, I just need some pointers on the
> proceedure. From what I've read, I need to use fdisk (or other
> partitioning tool) to delete the existing partition and create a new
> partition starting at the same cylinder but now with the new desired
> size.  After that I need to use resize2fs to grow the actual file
> system to the new size.
>

I've never done this, but it seems that parted does exactly what you 
need. I believe the most tricky part will be creating the unused space 
on the HDD (unless you delete an unused partition adjacent to the one 
you're growing).

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/

The online manual page 
(http://www.gnu.org/manual/parted-1.6.1/html_mono/parted.html) has some 
nice example sessions. As always, backup your partition before you play 
with it.

Good luck.

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