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Re: Help on investigating partition-related changes

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It would depend on a lot things(details that you have not included), but 
agreed, I don't know of a command or direct way, unless you have a 
recent backup or copy of the partition tables, you could compare the 
current sizes to.
To start with : What makes you think it may have been resized ?
What version of Debian ?
As far as "logs" go, I don't know on Debian 8 Jessie,...
How do you think it got resized or shrunk ?

On 2016-08-07 09:35, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 07/08/2016 à 14:43, Parsa Hassan Abadi a écrit :
>> 
>> Is there any way to see if a partition has been resized or shrunk? Any 
>> log, any
>> command, anything??
> 
> AFAIK there is no direct way.
> 
> The only idea which comes into my mind is to examine the contents
> (e.g. filesystem) metadata of the partition. If the size recorded in
> the metadata does not match the size of the partition, it may have
> been resized. Even if the contents has been resized too, some metadata
> may not have been updated to reflect the new size. For instance, the
> number of inodes in an ext2/3/4 filesystem is fixed at the creation
> and does not change when the filesystem is resized. So, assuming the
> filesystem was created with the default values you can compare the
> output of e2mkfs in simulation mode and the output of tune2fs -l.

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Help on investigating partition-related changes Parsa Hassan Abadi <parsa96@icloud.com> - 2016-08-07 15:50 +0200
  Re: Help on investigating partition-related changes Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-08-07 16:40 +0200
    Re: Help on investigating partition-related changes limpia <limpia@openmailbox.org> - 2016-08-07 22:30 +0200
      Re: Help on investigating partition-related changes Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-08-09 07:50 +0200
        Re: Help on investigating partition-related changes limpia <limpia@openmailbox.org> - 2016-08-09 16:00 +0200
          Re: Help on investigating partition-related changes Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-08-09 17:30 +0200
            Re: Help on Re: Help on investigating partition-related changes limpia <limpia@openmailbox.org> - 2016-08-09 22:10 +0200
              Re: Help Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-08-10 01:00 +0200
                Re: Help limpia <limpia@openmailbox.org> - 2016-08-10 01:50 +0200
            Re: Help on investigating partition-related changes Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-10 01:50 +0200
              Re: Help on investigating partition-related changes Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-08-10 09:30 +0200
                Re: Help on investigating partition-related changes Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-10 16:50 +0200
  Re: Help on investigating partition-related changes Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-08-07 20:20 +0200

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