Extending an ext3 partition on Linux (without losing data)

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Here’s another successful operation done on fantastic Linux OS that is a pure dream for other operating systems. Situation: I have a virtual machine with 20 GB HDD, partitioned as follows: 95% ext3 on primary partition 5% swap on first partition of extended partition I certainly ...

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How to resize a filesystem to match size of a partition.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

One of the things I like of Linux is that despite I'm working with it since 1994 I never end learning part of it. Today my need was the following: I dd a 20 Gb backup onto a 40 Gb HDD and it worked smoothly, but problem is that filesystem on ...

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