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Re: Resize2fs Questions

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> On 31 Jan 2022, at 18:03, Gareth Evans <donotspam@fastmail.fm> wrote:
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>> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:58, Gareth Evans <donotspam@fastmail.fm> wrote:
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>>>> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:37, Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:27:56PM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote:
>>>>>>> On 31 Jan 2022, at 14:41, Martin McCormick <martin.m@suddenlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> #I should be telling resize2fs to squeeze everything in to a 7GB
>>>>>> #partition.
>>>>>> sudo resize2fs /dev/loop0p2 +7G
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> then I delete P2 and then add a
>>>>>> new partition which defaults to 2.
>>>> 
>>>> This seems to replace the partition containing the filesystem you've just resized with an empty one - doesn't it?
>>> 
>>> When you change a partition table it doesn't do anything to the
>>> data on the disk, only the partition table. Every partition resizing
>>> operation that only has to move the end position essentially does it
>>> this way.
>>> 
>>> (If you have to move the start then the data has to be moved first)
>>> 
>>> If you were using parted then you might type:
>>> 
>>> resizepart 2 7g
>>> 
>>> which looks less scary, but does exactly the same thing.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Andy
>>> 
>>> -- 
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>>> 
>> 
>> Hi Andy, I appreciate the data doesn't go anywhere, but...
>> 
>>>> then I delete P2 and then add a
>>>> new partition which defaults to 2.
>> 
>> doesn't that at least result in the appearance of deletion (an empty partition) if done after the resizing?
> 
> Do you mean creating a new partition 'around' the data makes it accessible again?  That would make sense re eg what testdisk seems to do...

Sorry - wasn't thinking!

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Resize2fs Questions "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2022-01-31 15:50 +0100
  Re: Resize2fs Questions Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2022-01-31 16:40 +0100
  Re: Resize2fs Questions Gareth Evans <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-31 18:30 +0100
    Re: Resize2fs Questions Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2022-01-31 18:40 +0100
      Re: Resize2fs Questions Gareth Evans <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-31 19:00 +0100
        Re: Resize2fs Questions Gareth Evans <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-31 19:10 +0100
          Re: Resize2fs Questions Gareth Evans <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-31 19:20 +0100
        Re: Resize2fs Questions Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2022-02-01 00:40 +0100
          Re: Resize2fs Questions Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-02-01 03:00 +0100

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