Re: [Astlinux-devel] Expand disk partition?

[Michael K. <li...@mk...>]

> Am 23.05.2020 um 19:33 schrieb David Kerr <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

Yes, you can only configure the size of ASTURW (default 256 MB, I set it to 512MB), the rest is for /mnt/kd/.

> 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:
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> https://gparted.org/download.php
> 
> Michael

Michael

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