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Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

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On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:43:36 ML mail wrote:

> Hello
>
> On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk:
>
> - /dev/sdb1 of 4TB
> - /dev/sdb2 of 9TB
>
> Now I would like to decrease the first partition of 1TB in order to
> increase the second partition by that very same 1TB. Any ideas how to
> do that? My partition table is using GPT and I have parted installed.
>
> Regards
> ML

I think this is a job for gparted. But since the amount of data that 
needs to be moved is large, I'd make sure the weather is good so the 
power won't be interrupted OR you had a UPS capable of running it until 
standby power can get fired up and the load picked back up.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Decrease/increase XFS partitions ML mail <mlnospam@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-17 09:50 +0200
  Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Igor Cicimov <icicimov@gmail.com> - 2016-08-17 10:00 +0200
    Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-08-17 10:10 +0200
      Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-17 15:40 +0200
        Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-08-17 21:10 +0200
    Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-17 15:00 +0200
  Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-17 15:00 +0200
    Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-08-17 15:20 +0200
      Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-08-17 15:30 +0200
        Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-08-17 15:40 +0200
          Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-08-17 16:20 +0200
      Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-17 16:00 +0200
        Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-08-17 16:10 +0200
          Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-17 16:30 +0200
          Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-08-17 21:20 +0200
    Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-08-17 15:40 +0200
      Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-17 16:00 +0200
        Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-08-17 16:10 +0200
          Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-17 16:30 +0200
            Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-08-17 17:00 +0200
          Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-08-17 17:00 +0200
        Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-08-17 16:30 +0200
      Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-08-17 21:10 +0200

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