Hello,
After reading as many topics as I could find (not that many on this forum - old one had more like these) I decided to open a new thread for partition resizing tips and tricks.
Thing is, many of us (me included) have our machines for years and since then some of the original sizez for partitions become too small: usually /boot, but sometimes other too.
Many years used dd to make copies of the partitions especially when I was running ipfire on SDCards.
So I am quite familiar with this process, but today challenge is to resize that disk dump…
Today case: / is too small; /lib and /usr have each close to 1GB and whole / is 2GB
Temporary I have cleaned up /lib/firmware by removing firmware for devices not present on my APU board…
But I need to increase the /dev/sda3 that is mounted as /
Current status:
Disk /dev/sda: 14.9 GiB, 16013942784 bytes, 31277232 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x000dd6f5
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 133119 131072 64M 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 133120 2146119 2013000 982.9M 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 2146120 6340423 4194304 2G 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 6340424 31275183 24934760 11.9G 83 Linux
[root@silver-x86-64 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
tmpfs 2.0G 12K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 2.0G 624K 2.0G 1% /run
/dev/sda3 2.0G 1.3G 549M 71% /
/dev/sda1 59M 31M 24M 57% /boot
/dev/sda4 12G 1.9G 9.2G 17% /var
/var/lock 8.0M 16K 8.0M 1% /var/lock
none 2.0G 39M 1.9G 2% /var/log/rrd
none 2.0G 492K 2.0G 1% /var/log/vnstat
As you can see I have a swap which I never used (I usually run my machine with swapoff because 4GB RAM are enough)
I can easily merge sda2 and sda3 in one partition while booting from an external drive (SDCard) but the trick what is going happen when I am going to dump content saved previously from sda3 to the newly increased partition:
- Will the size be reduced back to 2GB?
- Do I need to edit mtab or fstab to point to the new partition UUID?
Anything else?
Thank you!
H&M