resizing a ext3 partition

[Dave Cramer]

Well, the vm disk has multiple partitions in it, I moved them out of the
way so that partition 1 now has room, but I need to expand it before
resize2fs will work on it.

Dave Cramer


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Jason Shaw <grazer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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