Hi Håkon, yes, resize2fs does not support shrinking the file system starting from the beginning. I was fairly sure that parted is able to handle such operations, but for my surprise it's heading away from operations related to file systems.. In case one can't use Gparted, I guess the best option is to:
1) shrink the file system(resize2fs) and then partition(fdisk) towards the beginning 2) create a new partition(fdisk) and file system(mkfs.ext3) to the space which was freed in the first step 3) copy(cp -a) content of first file system to the second file system(the one which was created in step 2) 4) delete the first partition 5) associate the new partition with the correct mount point in /etc/fstab Any other options/suggestions for shrinking the partition and file-system in it starting from the beginning from the CLI? regards, martin Kuupäeval 24. aprill 2012 1:34 kirjutas Håkon Løvdal <[email protected]>: > The command to resize an ext3 file system is resize2fs (from > http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/), however I do not think it supports > resizing with the end of the partition being the fixed reference point. > > BR Håkon Løvdal
