[Lincoln LUG] disk size

[Andrew Walmsley]

thanks norman

We use something like that at work too.

Andy



On 4 October 2017 at 12:27, Norman Bailey via Lincoln <
lincoln at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> On 4 October 2017 at 08:46, tom bruton via Lincoln <
> 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> 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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