How to resize ext3 partitions?

Marcelo Magno T. Sales marcelo.sales at sefaz.pe.gov.br
Fri May 12 13:57:33 UTC 2006


> But to summarize the steps.
> If you want to extend a filesystem by extend also the partition you have
> to:
>
> 1. copy your partition configuration by for example the 'fdisk -l'
> command. There are other command that permit to have a simple file that
> can be used to reconfigure the partition table, but I don't remember
> which because I'm not using it.
> 2. Calculate the dimension of your new partition, standing that the
> first block as to be the same as before (otherwise you can't see data).
> Note that you can't see data, but data is not lost. If you reconfigure
> the partition as before, you can see the same data.

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Thanks for the help. That will do it.

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Marcelo




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