[Lincoln LUG] disk size

[Norman Bailey]

Let me chip in.

I use Paragon Drive Copy for things like this. It will 
copy/duplicate/upgrade a drive formatted by Windows, Linux or Apple.

You can move easily to a larger disk and it does all the hard work for you.

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.

Regards,

Norman


On 04/10/2017 12:02, Andrew Walmsley via Lincoln wrote:
> hey tom, yes we increased disk size so just need to increase partitions.
>
>
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> On 4 October 2017 at 08:46, tom bruton via Lincoln 
> <lincoln at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:lincoln at mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto:lincoln at mailman.lug.org.uk>>
>     wrote:
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>         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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