Re: [Astlinux-devel] Expand disk partition?

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

GParted works!!  At least on my test VM.  I put the GParted ISO onto my
ESXi datastore, created a VM, attached the target disk as a 2nd disk, then
booted from the ISO.  I could then select the target disk and resize it
easily.  Shutdown the GParted VM, removed the 2nd disk, booted my test
Astlinux and the partition was resized.  Now to decide whether to do the
same on my main Astlinux (after backup / snapshot!) or go with a new
install to get the separate kd partition.

David

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 1:42 PM Michael Keuter <li...@mk...>
wrote:

>
>
> > 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:
> >
> >
> > > 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
>
> Michael
>
> http://www.mksolutions.info
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