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Re: [SLE] Expanding ext2/ext3/reiser partition
- From: Stephen Boddy <stephen.boddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 03:00:24 +0000
- Message-id: <200501020300.24720.stephen.boddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sunday 02 January 2005 02:14, neofax@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Is there anyway to expand any of these filesystems without losing the info
> on the partition? I have a couple partitions that need to be expanded to
> make room for some upgrades. Thanks!
>
> NeoFax
Yes they can.
resize2fs
resize_reiserfs
Do NOT do this without a confirmed backup in place. I did it once and very
nearly lost many gigs of data. Only a lot of tinkering and blind luck got my
data back. I still don't know exactly what fixed it though. You live and
learn.
--
Steve Boddy
> Is there anyway to expand any of these filesystems without losing the info
> on the partition? I have a couple partitions that need to be expanded to
> make room for some upgrades. Thanks!
>
> NeoFax
Yes they can.
resize2fs
resize_reiserfs
Do NOT do this without a confirmed backup in place. I did it once and very
nearly lost many gigs of data. Only a lot of tinkering and blind luck got my
data back. I still don't know exactly what fixed it though. You live and
learn.
--
Steve Boddy
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