[Lincoln LUG] disk size

[Graham Markall]

Hi Andrew,

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?

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)?

Graham.


On 04/10/17 07:55, Andrew Walmsley wrote:
> Hi Graham
>
> I did try fdisk but it won't delete the partitions (even swap)
>
> I tried resize too.
>
> Think will download a live cd on the host and mount to the VM.
>
> Thanks 4support as always.
>
>
>
> Andy
>
> On 4 Oct 2017 7:18 a.m., "Graham Markall via Lincoln"
> <lincoln at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:lincoln at mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Andrew,
>
>     What's the filesystem? And are you using LVM?
>
>     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.
>
>     This stackexchange answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/119458 provides
>     a reasonable description of how to do it.
>
>
>     Graham.
>
>
>     On 03/10/17 23:37, Andrew Walmsley via Lincoln wrote:
>>     hi everyone
>>
>>     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.
>>
>>     diskpart is no good as i'm booting to the drive which is mounting.
>>
>>     What is best way round? mount a live cd? add an extra drive?
>>
>>     Help!
>>
>>
>>
>>     andy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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