Questions tagged [resize2fs]
A utility to resize ext2, ext3, or ext4 file systems.
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How to calculate correct partition size when shrinking filesystem with resize2fs
After shrinking a read only filesystem with resize2fs on GNU/Linux, how do i determine the correct partition entry for the shrunken filesystem?
Initial partition scheme of remote host:
Disk /dev/sda: ...
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How to resize LVM
I found many related questions and answers like this or guides like this but most of them didn't want to do exactly what I want and I am feeling quite insecure and am afraid of doing something wrong.
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rhel + efsck + Deleted inode xxxxx has zero dtime
when I try to resize the disk we get that
resize2fs /dev/sdb
resize2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
Please run 'e2fsck -f /dev/sdb' first.
so when I try to do e2fsck
I get the following
e2fsck -f /dev/sdb
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Partition mounting/resizing failed to read last sector?
After a failed resizing operation, mount operation is failing with:
Failed to read last sector (718198764): Invalid argument
The partition is not accessible with Gparted and other GUI tools. How can ...
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How to shrink a file image, produced with dd?
I tried the process from this post resize partition on an image file. I didn't succeed in understanding why it goes wrong in my case.
I produced a 8GB image using dd. The image contains two partitions....
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How to recover filesystem and physical size mismatch
I was trying to shrink my home partition. I followed this ArchWiki article for that. According to this I first resized my filesystem using resize2fs and then resized my physical device using parted. ...
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resize home partition and take from root partition to increase home space
here is my partitions
lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT
NAME FSTYPE LABEL SIZE MOUNTPOINT
sdb 9.1T
├─sdb1 swap 16G [SWAP]
├─sdb2 ext3 512M /boot
├─sdb3 ...
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I would like to extend /dev/sdb1
[root@localhost ~]# df -h ; fdisk -l
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 894M 0 894M 0% /dev
tmpfs 910M 0 910M 0% /dev/...
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How to check progress of an already running lvresize command?
First, filesystem was backed up and unmounted succesfully.
Then, an lvresize was executed, and is already running:
lvresize --resizefs --size 1024G /dev/dbdrp/db
And shows the output:
fsck from ...
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Is there any reason why ext4 device drivers cannot be updated to allow online resize (reduce AND extend)?
Question says it all really. I am a little baffled why ext4 doesn't already provide the ability for a partition to be resized online. Can anyone help me to understand why this does not exist please? ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Extend Disk
I've got a virtual Ubuntu 18.04 server which is running low on disk space. As this is a virtual server I increased the hard disk size in vSphere. I can see the free space in cfdisk but am unsure how ...
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Ubuntu on Azure: increase partition size
I have basic unix skills and have to do some maintenance on a linux machine (Ubuntu 18.04). hosted on Azure. I need to resize the /dev/sda1 partition, giving more space to it.
When I run df -h it ...
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Just how dangerous is sending SIGINT to resize2fs tasked with shrinking?
I inherited an old PC-server (quad Pentium 4) that only had partitions for /, /boot and swap (RAID1 with 2 1T SATA disks), but needed to update the distro (from CentOS 6.9). I decided to create a new ...
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How to merge two unallocated partitions which 1st is on left site and 2nd is on right side [duplicate]
This is how it looks. I wonder if it's possible to merge the 2 unallocated partitions without data loss
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“Resize2FS” compact data blocks before resize
We suppose to have a partition of 100Gb filled up by 75Gb of data.
We want to reduce it by 20Gb.
Does resize2fs move the 75Gb of data to the remaining 80Gb, and then resize the partition? In other ...
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How can a disk without a partition be “partitioned” without losing data?
I have a 1TB portable hard drive that I use for backups. The entire drive (/dev/sdb) has been formatted as an ext4 filesystem.
I have been reading about the benefits of btrfs for backups (checksums, ...
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Does `resize2fs` only move the end position of a filesystem?
man resize2fs says
The size parameter specifies the requested new size of the filesystem.
Does resize2fs only move the end position of a filesystem, not the beginning position of a filesystem (...
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How shall I better calcuate the target sizes for shrinking a LV and filesystem?
I had a LV with a ext4 filesystem.
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/lubuntu--vg-root: 499GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
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Does `resize2fs` by default do nothing?
For resize2fs,
If ``size parameter is not specified, it will default to the
size of the partition
The size of a filesystem is by default the size of its underlying partition.
So by default, ...
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How does `resize2fs` change the size of a file system?
According to https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/501454/674,
parted's resizepart does not care about the filesystem at all. It just changes the partition table to specify a new location where the ...
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How is the size of a filesystem defined?
man resize2fs says
The resize2fs program will resize ext2, ext3, or ext4 file systems. It can be used to enlarge or
shrink an unmounted file system located on device. ...
The size parameter ...
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Do `parted resizepart` and `resize2fs` not modify or remove existing files on a partition?
Does parted's resizepart command by default not modify or remove existing files on a partition? Furthermore, does it never modify or remove existing files on a partition (even by some option)?
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Extend filesystem and LVM
I need to add more space to my filesystem.
Right now it looks like this :
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_dcqsvu009-lv_root
50G 47G ...
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resize2fs failed to find disk
I'm trying to resize my disk that's on google cloud from 1TB to 2 TB. I resized the disk space in google's console as instructed and:
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
overlay ...
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How to resize linux partition with RAID1?
I have a Proxmox disk with 130Gb LVM image. I moved it to 235Gb disk. And resized in the Proxmox. Done.
But in my Linux distro, the partition still 130Gb (disk become 235Gb).
The partitions:
/dev/...
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Resize partition without using LVM
I have Ubuntu 16.04 installed on remote server and I have requested another 20GB for my /dev/vda2 partition (now its 20GB), so the total size would be 40GB. Since vda2 is full of very valuable data (...
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Extend LVM size
I have an EC2 instance which has 2 EBS (1 x 200G, 1 x 100G).
Below is the output of lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
xvde1 202:65 0 200G 0 disk /
xvdj ...
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why is resize2fs telling me wrong information
Good afternoon! I am attempting to shrink an ext4 partition and I have found many tutorials online to achieve this, however, when implementing the actual changes, resize2fs is telling me wrong ...
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How to shrink a partition below the minimum size reported by resize2fs?
I want to shrink a 250GB ext4 partition down to 200GB with resize2fs.
The df tool says the partition is about 40% filled up. So, I guess I can, at least, shrink the partition to that level.
Yet, ...
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How to resize2fs ext4 partition that I shrunk with parted without e2fsck -f complaining of superblock or partition table
Please note that if I resize my partition back to original size with parted, I can then mount my /dev/vda1 partition without problems.
But how can I get it to mount it after I SHRUNK it to 8GB? (...
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Unable to Mount… EXT4: First Meta block group too large
EXT4-fs (dm-46): first meta block group too large: 1152 (group descriptor block count 1096)
I have a filesystem, which is ext4, on a machine with 4.17.2-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64. The logical volume is 8....
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GParted won't resize physical volume
Booted from an USB Ubuntu 18.04 and I'm trying to shrink my current Ubuntu 16.04 partition.
For the sake of completion, this is what lsblk returns in the momento I'm writing this:
sda ...
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LVM not able to be resized or checked with resize2fs and e2fsck
I extended an lvm from the terminal in system rescue live CD using the commands:
# pvcreate /dev/sda7
# vgextend fedora /dev/sda7
# lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/fedora/root
The above worked but when ...
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Resize2fs keeps asking me to run e2fsck -f [closed]
I set-up a server with LVM, and I just recently extended one of my logical volumes from 25TB to 35.
root@server:/home/user# df -h /dev/mapper/vg--data-lv--data
Filesystem Size ...
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Fedora installed on Windows Partition
I have installed Fedora 32 on a 1 TB drive, which was filled up with data. I have resized to 50 GB, because there was no bigger value to choose and I had 50 GB free to use. After I installed it on ...
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resize2fs fail to resize partition to full capacity?
Added a new disk (/dev/vdb) of 2TB with existing data from the previous 1TB disk.
I used fdisk /dev/vdb to extend its only partition /dev/vdb1 to full capacity of 2TB from previous 1TB. And then I ...
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How to stop jbd2 on unmounted filesystem
I need to resize2fs the root partition of an embedded device. Since it doesn't have an alternate boot option, I used an tmpfs, moved and restated everything until I finally was able to umount /dev/...
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How to resize logical volume in Red Hat Linux
Please guide that how to do following tasks with executing command.
1.Create a new physical volume, create a new volume group in the name of
dataconresize, vg extent is 16.00MB.
2.Create a new ...
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Merge partitions resize2fs error
I was following this guide
How do I combine two logical volumes that reside on a single physical volume in LVM?
To merge /data into / So / would have 60G space in addition.
Everything was done ...
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Want to increase partition sizes - how to do so safely?
I'm looking to resize a number of partitions, but I'm unsure how to go about doing this.
I want to increase the partition size of the /var partition, that is in the middle of all the other partitions....
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Why do I need to do resize2fs after lvextend?
For resizing LVM2 partition, one needs to perform the following 2 commands:
# lvextend -L+1G /dev/myvg/homevol
# resize2fs /dev/myvg/homevol
However, when I perform lvextend, I see that the changes ...
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How to migrate partitions and file systems to another device
I have an existing system with partitions but want to move them to a new device. The new device may be smaller and be connected to the system differently then the existing device. How do I move the ...
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Want to allocate space to centos-root folder
Below is my df -h output
[root@dpnjsv2-centos7-base logs]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/centos-root 12G 9.8G 1.6G 87% /
devtmpfs 2....
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Amazon EBS - extend LVM partition (non destructively)
I have an Amazon EBS volume that I'm using as a backing store for MongoDB, and I want to extend it.
The volume holds a single partition, which is an LVM partition type. That partition belongs to a ...
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fdisk not seing resize2fs shrinking unmounted partition
I need to make another parition (/dev/vda2) on an existing disk (/dev/vda, 20G).
umount /mnt/
resize2fs /dev/vda1 10G
df -h
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/dev/vda1 9.8G 7.8G 1.5G 85% /mnt
So it's ok on this side, ...
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How to increase size of filesystem to match partition
Apologies for this question but I am very new to Linux.
When I installed my Fedora distribution I only allocated 20GB of my hard drive space for its partition. I recently used GParted and tried to ...
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Resizing primary parition with extended one in command line
I want to extend my primary partition with a new extended one that I created with parted.
Here is my actual setup (parted print free):
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
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How do I update the partition table on a disk image file after resizing a partition in it?
I'm trying to resize a disk image (Raspbian image) on disk.
The trouble is, when I attempt to boot the RaspberryPi from the resized image
(after writing to an SD card) I get:
Kernel panic - not ...
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bad geometry: block count 967424 exceeds size of device (415232 blocks)
I am trying to understand what I did wrong with the following mount command.
Take the following file from here:
http://elinux.org/CI20_Distros#Debian_8_2016-02-02_Beta
Simply download the img file ...
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resize2fs command not found
I want to resize EC2 EBS root volume, I tried to install e2fsprogs but it's still "not found".
I'm using debian 8.
How do I install this application?
