Re: [Astlinux-devel] Expand disk partition?

[David K. <da...@ke...>]

If I create fresh from an ISO install, how is the available disk
partitioned... does most of it get assigned to the kd ?

David

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 1:26 PM Michael Keuter <li...@mk...>
wrote:

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> > Am 23.05.2020 um 19:08 schrieb Lonnie Abelbeck <
> li...@lo...>:
> >
> >
> >
> >> On May 23, 2020, at 11:15 AM, David Kerr <da...@ke...> wrote:
> >>
> >> Is it possible to expand the disk partition that Astlinux uses?  For
> example I am running a test system in ESXi and expanded the disk from 16GB
> to 32GB.  I can see that the "physical" disk is expanded in Astlinux using
> fdisk... but is there a non-destructive way to expand /dev/sda2 to use that
> full space?
> >>
> >> pbx-test / # fdisk -l
> >> Disk /dev/sda: 32 GiB, 34359738368 bytes, 67108864 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: 0xdd48f40c
> >>
> >> Device     Boot  Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
> >> /dev/sda1  *      2048   524159   522112  255M  6 FAT16
> >> /dev/sda2       524288 33554431 33030144 15.8G 83 Linux
> >> pbx-test / #
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> David
> >
> > Interesting question.
> >
> > Looking at this:
> > https://geekpeek.net/resize-filesystem-fdisk-resize2fs/
> >
> > This would require access via the RUNNIX shell, which has fdisk, e2fsck,
> but we don't include resize2fs.
> >
> > Kind of a unique scenario for only VM's, but I understand why you want
> this.
> >
> > Just thinking out loud ... could you create a new VM disk and install
> AstLinux from scratch via the ISO installer, then shutdown, attach the old
> VM drive along with the new VM drive and boot into the RUNNIX shell, mount
> common partitions and "cp -a ..." the files from the small partition to the
> large partition.
> >
> > For extra credit, could you use this technique to take a unionfs /mnt/kd
> and convert it to a sda3 /mnt/kd ?
> >
> > We could look at enabling resize2fs for RUNNIX builds if this is useful,
> regardless it is kind of scary deleting the partition you have data on.
> >
> > Lonnie
>
> Since it is a VM, I would create a backup first, and then try GParted:
>
> https://gparted.org/download.php
>
> Michael
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