How Increase Linux partition size

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suityou01 replied

17 April 2010, 12:37
Originally posted by Addanc View Post

Try parted magic. Download ISO, burn to CD, boot from CD easy.

Loving it. Will give it a good go. Thanks.
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Addanc replied

16 April 2010, 19:41
Try parted magic. Download ISO, burn to CD, boot from CD easy.
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darmstadt replied

15 April 2010, 21:22
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

Thanks for this. Being a Linux novice of sorts I do like my GUI tools, especially when it comes to doing things like moving and resizing partitions. This walkthrough made my head hurt, talking about drive geometry and stuff. Is there an easier/less technical/less error prone way?

Thats one of the myriad problems facing Linux, yes there are many GUI tools, possibly too many, but for the real nitty gritty work you have to get down to the command line and for something like this you might even have to boot into recovery or single user mode. Here are some reasonably good tutorials on Linux:
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suityou01 replied

13 April 2010, 08:39
Originally posted by darmstadt View Post

I don't know anything about Gparted but I would have originally created the partition using an LVM based setup which allows you to do that. If its an ext3 partition then you can resize it using resize2fs and these instructions are pretty good:

http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resi...xt3_partitions

If its a reiserfs have a look at resize_reiserfs (man resize_reiserfs)

Some partitions are reasonably easy to resize but others can be a real pain as they have to be unmounted which is where a live CD comes in useful.

Thanks for this. Being a Linux novice of sorts I do like my GUI tools, especially when it comes to doing things like moving and resizing partitions. This walkthrough made my head hurt, talking about drive geometry and stuff. Is there an easier/less technical/less error prone way?
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darmstadt replied

12 April 2010, 20:26
I don't know anything about Gparted but I would have originally created the partition using an LVM based setup which allows you to do that. If its an ext3 partition then you can resize it using resize2fs and these instructions are pretty good:

http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resi...xt3_partitions

If its a reiserfs have a look at resize_reiserfs (man resize_reiserfs)

Some partitions are reasonably easy to resize but others can be a real pain as they have to be unmounted which is where a live CD comes in useful.
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stek replied

12 April 2010, 19:56
How about newfsing it and mounting it as /data or something?

I might be wrong but I think with gparted you maybe have to create a partition first (as against just empty space as it is now) and then shrink that/grow root.
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suityou01 started a topic How Increase Linux partition size

12 April 2010, 19:47
How Increase Linux partition size

I am booted on my Ubuntu live CD running GParted, staring at my screen in disbelief. I have 167 GB of unused HDD space I would like to increase my root partition to use. Eeeeeeeeeeeveryone on the web says to use GParted, the thing is the resize / move option does not allow you to INCREASE only decrease which is no chuffing good tbh.

So how would you Linux boffins achieve this? Any help very gratefully received.

TIA

SY01
Tags: gparted, linux, parted magic, partition size