resizing a ext3 partition

[Dave Cramer]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Dave Cramer <davecramer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:07 AM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>wrote:
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>> 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 ?
>>
>> By "the end", you mean "the beginning", no?  fdisk starts from 2048
>> (1M/512k) from the beginning, and it won't accept less than that.  Try
>> another program (ie. sfdisk, cfdisk).  Maybe it accepts 1 as the
>> beginning.
>> --
>>
>
> Yes, you are correct I meant the beginning!, Thx
>


cfdisk worked fine. Thanks for the heads up. I've moved all of the
partitions around and successfully resized them
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