Re: Fdisk

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 08:15:27PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 20/01/2017 à 11:11, tomas@tuxteam.de a écrit :
> >
> >>On 01/20/2017 11:54 AM, Gokan Atmaca wrote:
> >>>Pre:
> >>>root@debian:/home/gokan# fdisk  -l
> >>>
> >>>Disk /dev/sda:[b] 40 GiB[/b], 42949672960 bytes, 83886080 sectors
> (...)
> >>>Post:
> >>>root@debian:/home/gokan# fdisk -l
> >>>
> >>>Disk /dev/sda:[b] 50 GiB[/b], 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors
> (...)
> >>>How can I grow this disc?
> 
> You just did. The disk size is now 50 GiB.
> Do not confuse disk, partition and filesystem.
> 
> > (3) you could try to add your new space to your existing root
> >     partition (sda1). Problem is, the swap is on the way. So
> >     first disable swap, remove swap partition (as in (2)), delete
> >     swap partition (fdisk), enlarge sda1 (still fdisk), re-create
> >     swap at the end (still fdisk). When finished, and all is
> >     well, then you can resize your file system (resize2fs). Note
> >     that root can't be mounted read/write for that.
> 
> Why not ? ext4 supports online growing.

You're right: only shrinking has to be done off-line these days.
Sorry for the confusion.

regards
- -- tomás
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAliDFE8ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYFGwCeJhjxoy3LlVHhlm5+5cHXIEKI
FRMAn1GePzsYDhw6OUE/A30avXn9LU9k
=ROyC
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----