Questions tagged [resize2fs]
A utility to resize ext2, ext3, or ext4 file systems.
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Debian - add disk and resize main partition
I've added new disk to server and now I need to resize main / partition with this space.
I remember few years ago that I have done something like this but every tutorial on the net is about adding ...
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Negative disk used space after shrinking RAID1 in Debian 11
I resized an ext4 software RAID1 consisting of two disks sda3 and sdb3 (in rescue mode, i.e. disks are not mounted):
e2fsck -f /dev/md126
resize2fs /dev/md126 39G
mdadm --grow /dev/md126 --size 40G
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how to add to current fs ext4
So I deleted my windows partition and now I'm trying to add to the currant partition but it's not letting me either through GParted or KDE part.. any suggestions?
:caspah@debian:~$ sudo lsblk
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resize /dev/sda8 to add 40GB
I have a question regarding the enlargement of a partition without LVM.
I have already read through some things how to proceed here, but I am still unsure, so I ask the question myself.
I have /dev/...
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Ubuntu ext4 partition is not being extended or resized as expected with growpart or resize2fs
I've previously used growpart and resize2fs to resize a mounted online ext4 paritition in a Linux system.
Currently I have a Ubuntu guest running in virtualbox that I'd like to resize the partition /...
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Can't resize mounted file to dir after increasing size (fallocate)
I created a file to mount as /tmp dir to limit it's size so it cant crash the system. I used mkfs.ext4 on it and it mounts in /etc/fstab. Now I need to increase the size, so I used fallocate again, ...
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How to resize root ext3 file system without LVM
My Debian vmware image has run out of space. I've expanded the disk image but now need to increase my root partition to see the additional space. My volume is setup as follows
Disk /dev/sda: 50 GiB, ...
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Unable to mount ext4 partition - bad geometry
I've got a HDD disk that was sitting on a shelf for a long time (since 2015?). I've now put it into an external USB drive caddy and trying to mount it but it fails, the geometry seems to be off by 1 ...
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In an Ubuntu VM in VMWare I increased the hard disk space, how do I add that to the file system?
I have an Ubuntu (v20.04) VM in VMWare. I increased (2x from 20G to 40G) the hard disk size. How do I add that space to the file system?
From lsblk, I have the following: sda is 40G type disk which is ...
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cannot resize disk on aws instance
I tried following the instructions in:
Can't resize a partition using resize2fs
But nothing seemed to work.
The output of lsblk is:
[AWS root@archive ~]$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:...
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How to resize /dev/sda2 when it is md0 sw raid 1
I just added bigger 4TBfrom 2TB ssd to the md0 raid but the size is still the same. I tryed to resize .partition but it says it is busy. Parted is still resizing it on old size.
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Personalities : ...
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Why does resize2fs shrink a partition by first moving blocks right after the end of the specified range? Can this be changed?
I am currently shrinking a rather large partition with resize2fs in order to recover empty space in an LVM volume group.
The way I understand it, a file system shrink operation, for every block ...
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Adjust a disk space available for a directory in Linux
I need to adjust the disk space given for an ordinary directory such as /opt directory. I'd found that the /opt directory allocates the space 4.0G, by using the below command:
sudo du -sh /opt
I need ...
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How to (safely) free up space in front of ext2/3/4 partition using fdisk / resize2fs
I was wondering how you could safely free up space in front of a partition using command line tools such as fdisk or resize2fs.
I know it's possible to do this with gparted, but that is not available ...
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Unable to extend LV file system in Ubuntu Server
I run a bare metal Ubuntu server with several VMs running in a KVM environment. I want to increase the size of one VM from 50GB to 100GB.
I ran the following command to increase the nextcloudph-lv ...
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how do I shrink a partition, right after shrinking its filesystem with resize2fs?
This is what've done to shrink /home partition filesystem:
e2fsck /dev/sda1
resize2fs /dev/sda1 150G
As of now, if I run df it is going to show me that the partition has shrunk from 210G to 150G (...
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Umderstanding the output of resizefs -d 32
After shrinking an ext4 file system with resize2fs M I mounted it to realize it has only 57% used. So I ran
$ resize2fs -d 32 -M rootfs-2021-06-28.img
resize2fs 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018)
fs has 9698 inodes,...
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How can I shrink/use a Logical Volume and use it as swap
How am I able to reduce /var/lib/vz logical volume (/dev/vg/data) and use it/increase the current swap size?
/etc/fstab
UUID=c4408a1c-aa5b-4ce2-a9e8-1673660331e9 / ext4 defaults ...
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Calculate correctly the ext2 used blocks by the file system
What I'm trying achieve is, a safe shrinking of an ext2 file system and make sure I can cut/shrink the physical partition underneath to a safe minimum (without cutting file system blocks). I have ...
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How to shrink LVM physical volume with free space
I want to shrink my LVM physical volume and use this free space to create another partition for another OS.
I resized my root and home logical volumes using lvresize and now I'm trying to use pvresize,...
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is it possible to know on which date and time resize2fs was activated on disk
we have rhel machine with disk sdb , and disk OS is sda
before couple days - not sure about the time & date
resize2fs was implemented on the disk sdb , so disk sdb expended from 20G to 40G
is it ...
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Trying to grow a partition fails, resize2fs keeps asking to run e2fsck first
I used Gparted first to place some free space directly to the right of my xubuntu installation on /dev/sda4, but it fails to grow the partition to include the free space.
I then tried these below ...
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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
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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
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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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