Re: shrink ext3 filesystem using e2fsprogs and fdisk
Jochen, Darac:
thanks for replies! Is it possible to "slide" partition using the
tools included with e2fsprogs package as well? Or is the GNU Parted
only option here if I want to make changes over CLI?
regards,
martin
Kuupäeval 26. märts 2012 17:28 kirjutas Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk>:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:50:27PM +0000, Martin T wrote:
>> I have a 500GB((131072000*4096)/1024^3) ext3 filesystem:
>>
> [cut]
>>
>> Is it possible to make partition smaller starting from the beginning?
>> If yes, do I need to somehow start file system from the end of the
>> partition?
>
> Not directly. Try installing gparted (package: gparted). This will give
> you a graphical interface which will allow you to resize the partition
> as you're wanting. You will probably become aware that, no, taking space
> off the beginning of the partition is not possible, but it IS possible
> to take space off the END of the partition and then "slide" the
> partition towards the end of the space.
>
> The same is possible (I think) using the CLI parted, if you don't have
> X. Note also that ext3 does NOT support online shrinking (you can make
> it larger, but to make it smaller you MUST umount it).
>
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