On 01/06/2016 10:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 10:16 -0700, jd1008 wrote:
by catenation to a partition on an external drive.
I do not want to shrink the fedora partition, but I could
if necessary; in which case does fedora have a partition
resizer?
I know I can back up the fedora partition, resize it and
and restore from backup. But that could take many hours
of down time. I was wondering if there is a util that
can do it to an unmounted fedora partition.
Resizing the partition can be done with gparted, but note that you
first have to resize the filesystem within the partition, and how you
do that depends on which fs you have as not all of them support
reducing the size.
poc
The fedora partition is the 2nd partition and sizes are as follows:
$ fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x0004ccd9
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 84033535 84031488 40.1G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 84035584 1919970735 1835935152 875.5G 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 1919970736 1953525167 33554432 16G 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
I want to move sda3 start position some 32GB to the right, thus
shrinking it by 32GB.
sda3 is the fedora boot partition and formatted and mounted as ext4.
P.S: Notice that sda2 is missing - because it was a tiny remnant
partition of windows
restoration utils (about 100 meg), which had proved to be useless to me,
since I use backup
and restore which completely obviated those tools. So, I expanded
windows partition into what was
sda2. Of course, I had first deleted sda2 in order to use windows
storage gui to expand
C: drive into the space that was sda2.
But still, windoze needs a little more room, as it is running out of
swap area.
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