resizing a ext3 partition

[Jason Shaw]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Dave Cramer <davecramer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I want to resize my root partition. This is on a vm so I have the file and
> can play with it.
>
> as I understand it I want to use fdisk to delete then create the partition.
>
> It currently starts at 1, but fdisk insists on using 2048 as the end. Is
> there a way to simply edit the end in the partition table ?
>
> Dave Cramer

Have you looked into using resize2fs?  I think it might be as easy as
shutting down, changing the vm disk size, boot up and run the resize.

-jason
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