Questions tagged [resize2fs]
A utility to resize ext2, ext3, or ext4 file systems.
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VM Centos7 Inside Proxmox Can't resize storage
i have a Centos7 VM with 100% capacity used for storage dev/mapper/sinta--vg-root
in cfdisk, i have free storage about 120GB, i want to make the dev/mapper/sinta--vg-root more bigger, but first i ...
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Unable to extend fedora Server VirtualBox Volume (lvm2)
I Im trying to resize my root volume. I already resized the virtual volume inside virtualbox and also reallocated the space with gparted:
But undortunately after using lvextend and resize2fs there is ...
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Can I expand my /var partition?
I just installed Ubuntu 24.04, and I made a mistake: I put the /var directory on its own partition, and its size is 10 GB. After a few days it is already full.
Is there a way to fix this problem ...
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filesystem on disk without partition
One may help me with this, because its confusing me:
I have a 1.8T Disk (it's a VM virtual disk), here a snippet of df:
df -TH
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Understanding the impact of using resize2fs [duplicate]
I want to use resize2fs to resize partition on my system, will doing so delete any files that is present on the partition or will it use the free space available on the partition to resize the same?
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The filesystem is already 65010688 (4k) blocks long
Please help me , when I try to increase the partition size in LVM, but when I try it doesn’t work,
I do the following:
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev ...
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resize partition overlapping parted
parted -s -a opt /dev/sda "print free"
Modèle: VMware Virtual disk (scsi)
Disque /dev/sda : 268GB
Taille des secteurs (logiques/physiques): 512B/512B
Table de partitions : gpt
Disk Flags:
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Moving Pop-OS installation to a smaller drive (using GParted?)
I need to move a Pop-OS installation from a 250GB HDD to a 128GB SSD. So far I have been trying to use GParted (which worked for moving my Ubuntu installation between drives of the same size).
The ...
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Change the size of the partition using parted
What am I doing wrong?
I have an image, I added it as a loop device:
losetup -P /dev/loop13 ./my_image.img
gparted screenshot:
Then I try to change the FS size for the partition first:
e2fsck -f /...
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Resize2fs shrink operation leaves free space in filesystem?
I'm trying to shrink a filesystem image down to the smallest possible size. I'm okay with resize2fs leaving reserved filesystem blocks in place, but it's leaving about 400Mb of free space in the ...
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Increase size of a volume group
I have a 16GB msata but my rootfs is only 4GB. I need to increase the size of a volume group /dev/mapper/vg-var/ for my embedded system to full capacity.
$ lsblk
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How can i use ffmpeg to compress a .mp4 ( h264 ) to a smaller size without quality loss? [duplicate]
Hello i am kinda new with ffmpeg and learning everyday, i am now looking for on how i can compress a video in a smaller size. since i have some 1920x1080 mp4 files with a rediculous high size.
For ...
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mkfs ext4 on Debian 11 - inconsistent resize_inode results on filesystem creation
I am running Debian 11 with all current updates (kernel 5.10.0-18 and e2fsprogs 1.46.2-2).
I have been mkfs.ext4 some filesystems on various volumes - with lvm2 on top of mdraid, fwiw.
Specifically, ...
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How can I clone from 1TB MBR ssd to 4TB GPT ssd?
I have a raspberry pi with a 1TB hard drive. I managed to fill it up, so I purchased a new 4TB hard drive to replace it.
I then used software called "Macurim Reflect" to clone the previous ...
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How to expand the space of the partition /dev/sdf4 until the end of the sdcard ? Neither resize2fs nor gparted work correctly
I would like to resize the /dev/sdf4 partition located on the sd card mounted on my Ubuntu 22.04 distro. I tried to accomplish this task using two approaches :
using the command resizefs,but it ...
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Remove swap partition and extend root one(ext4)
sda 8:0 0 400G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 953M 0 part /boot
├─sda2 8:2 0 7.5G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 1K 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 391.6G 0 part /
I'm having this type of ...
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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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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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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
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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.
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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:
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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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