On Monday, 24 July 2017 21:01:37 CEST Pascal Hambourg wrote: > AFAIK, parted (the command line program) cannot move the start of a > partition and its contents. Only gparted (the GUI program) can.
Yes, Pascal, you're right: > Note that after version 2.4, the following commands were removed: > check, cp, mkfs, mkpartfs, move, resize. [1] I can't remember: is gparted available in debian's installation media? Otherwise I could try and run gparted live [2]. > With LVM you could have just created a new partition, use it as a > physical volume (PV) to extend the volume group (VG) and use the new > available space to extend or create logical volumes (LV). When I installed I thought LVM would be overkill for a laptop, instead it would have been the right choice. > With btrfs instead of ext4, you could have used a new partition to > extend the existing filesystem. Good to know. I chose ext4 simply because.. it was the default! > - create an image of the partition with dd, partclone, partimage, > clonezilla... (it must not be mounted read/write) > - back up the filesystem contents with cp -a, rsync... > > The image has the advantage of saving the filesystem metadata (UUID, > LABEL...) Thanks, these were the hints I needed. I think I'll go for the image. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/Command-explanations.html#Command-explanations [2] http://gparted.org/livecd.php -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Sent from my brain using neurons fueled by glucose. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ ⠈⠳⣄
