Partition Resizing Plan

[Barry Premeaux]

I knew you could resize and move partitions with it, but I was under the
impression that you would lose the data in that partition.  I'll read up on
it.  If I can tweak the partitions without the trouble of copying
everything to a back up and then back again, that would be nice.  I'll back
it up anyway, just for peace of mind.

Barry


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com>wrote:

>  On 12/11/2013 11:40 AM, Barry Premeaux wrote:
>
> This is on my laptop that currently has a 500 GB hard drive.  While 15 GB
> use to be sufficient in the past for /, that doesn't seem to be the case
> any longer.  I am thinking of bumping it up to 50 GB and making that my
> default / partition size on future installs.  With the huge drives coming
> with new machines, space isn't really an issue any more.
>
>
> I changed my / to 20Gb..  but you know you can use gparted to reduce or
> expand yours...
> # df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda7        19G  5.5G   12G  32% /
> none            4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> udev            3.9G   12K  3.9G   1% /dev
> tmpfs           799M  1.5M  798M   1% /run
> none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
> none            3.9G  5.4M  3.9G   1% /run/shm
> none            100M   28K  100M   1% /run/user
> /dev/sda8        49G  4.7G   42G  11% /pictures
> /dev/sda5        82G   37G   41G  48% /home
>
>
> http://gparted.org/
>
>    - Perform actions with partitions such as:
>       - create or delete
>       - resize or move
>       - check
>       - label
>       - set new UUID
>       - copy and paste
>     - Manipulate file systems such as:
>       - btrfs
>       - ext2 / ext3 / ext4
>       - fat16 / fat32
>       - hfs / hfs+
>       - linux-swap
>       - lvm2 pv
>       - nilfs2
>       - ntfs
>       - reiserfs / reiser4
>       - ufs
>       - xfs
>
>
>
> --
> Paul Cartwright
> Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
>
>
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