resizing a ext3 partition

[David Thornton]

what the!!!

I guess I'm in the minority to suggest to a bunch of techs to have LESS
moving parts rather than more.

David


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:06:51AM -0500, Dave Cramer 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 ?
>
> I would use gparted.
>
> Changes the partition table and filesystems all at the same time for you.
>
> If you enable partition support on loop mount, then you can do this:
>
> modprobe -r loop (Unload loop module)
> modprobe loop max_part=16 (Load loop module with partition support)
> losetup /dev/loop0 diskimagefile (connect loop0 to image file, which
> should then show /dev/loop0p1, etc as partitions on that disk image)
> gparted /dev/loop0 (Use gparted to change things)
> losetup -d /dev/loop0 (disconnect from loop0)
>
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