On Monday 07 March 2005 07:40 pm, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
>
> I just wanted to back up what Calvin said. Resizing a parition is
> basically 3 steps:
>
> 1. Resize the filesystem (ext2resize)
> 2. Resize the partition (delete, and put back in a smaller one that starts
> at the same block, and the last block just a tad bigger than the filesystem
> (fdisk)
> 3. Resize the filesystem again (ext2resize) to grow into the full
> partition.
I never had to do this... so I'm curious. In step 2, you delete the partition
via fdisk and then specify a new size. Doing this doesn't destroy the data in
the partition?
Amazing.
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