<div dir="ltr">thanks norman<div><br></div><div>We use something like that at work too. </div><div><br></div><div>Andy</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B87RgB_P4igjdnhqYlF2Z1RKdXM&export=download" width="200" height="105"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 October 2017 at 12:27, Norman Bailey via Lincoln <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lincoln@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">lincoln@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Let me chip in. <br>
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<p>I use Paragon Drive Copy for things like this. It will
copy/duplicate/upgrade a drive formatted by Windows, Linux or
Apple.</p>
<p>You can move easily to a larger disk and it does all the hard
work for you. <br>
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<p>I had a more difficult task for it. The last one I did was moving
from a Windows 10 1TB hard disk to a smaller 240GB SSD. It did it
perfectly and got all the partitioning right. I have to admit I
was impressed.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">hey tom, yes we increased disk size so just need to
increase partitions.</div>
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disk size on and now you are repartitioning the drives</div>
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<p>Hi Andrew,</p>
<p>Why do you want to delete partitions? Is
there a partition that immediately follows the
root filesystem partition? I presume you're
not attempting to delete the partition
containing the root filesystem - what is the
partition table output from fdisk?</p>
<p>I've never tried to delete partitions that
are mounted, but if you need to delete a
(non-root) partition, can you unmount it
first? (or in the case of swap, use swapoff)?<br>
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<div dir="auto">Hi Graham
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<div dir="auto">I did try fdisk but it won't
delete the partitions (even swap)</div>
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<div dir="auto">Think will download a live
cd on the host and mount to the VM.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks 4support as always.</div>
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<p>Hi Andrew,</p>
<p>What's the filesystem? And are you
using LVM?</p>
<p>Generally, you can resize a
partition online if you're using LVM
- you can also do it if you're not
using LVM by editing the partition
table, then running partprobe. Then,
if you have an ext3 or ext4 file
system, you can expand the
filesystem to fill the available
space in the partition whilst it's
mounted using resize2fs.</p>
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how to do it.</p>
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<div>Is there a way of resizing a
disk that is in use? Running a
debian server (no gui) with 1
drive that was set to 5gb, which
is now running out of space.
yes i know its a stupid size
(not my fault). Increased the
vm to see 10gb.</div>
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<div>diskpart is no good as i'm
booting to the drive which is
mounting.</div>
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<div>What is best way round? mount
a live cd? add an extra drive?</div>
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<div>Help!</div>
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