[Lincoln LUG] disk size

[tom bruton]

Is this a VM that you have increased the disk size on and now you are
repartitioning the drives

On 4 Oct 2017 08:02, "Graham Markall via Lincoln" <
lincoln at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> 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> 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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