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| From | Gareth Evans <donotspam@fastmail.fm> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Resize2fs Questions |
| Date | 2022-01-31 19:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <DLJhO-76i-19@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <DLJ86-6Ns-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:58, Gareth Evans <donotspam@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > > >> 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 >> >> -- >> https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting >> > > 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...
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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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