how to calculate correct values for resize2fs
Christian Kujau
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Thu Jun 25 17:13:40 UTC 2009
On Tue, June 23, 2009 02:12, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> I want to make a new 16 MB partition on the end of my /dev/sda SSD.
> Currently the SSD is partitioned in one ext2 /dev/sda1.
> My question is how can i make this new partition with the CLI tools.
Creating partitions is done with {c,s}fdisk. I think cfdisk ask where to
create this partition (at the end/at the beginning of the disk).
> I also have some parted question on how to just make a partition from
> the free space on the end of the disk.
"man parted", but I guess if cfdisk can do it, parted should be able to do
so as well. Hm, I just checked:
(parted) help mkpart
mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END make a partition
So, you can actually specify where you want the partition to start.
After creating a new partition, you can mkfs this new one. I did not
understand at which point you want to "resize" a partition. Resizing a
filesystem is usually done on existing, resized partitions.
C.
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