Answer by Xondio for How to Extend primary partition(/dev/sda1) in linux?
I use often for Servers which run over a few years and go now out of space this workaround: Normally one or two applikations/services/deamons/whats so ever... need the most most space. If thats the...
View ArticleAnswer by hovanessyan for How to Extend primary partition(/dev/sda1) in linux?
The Risk Free way would be if you can copy(mirror) all your data from /dev/sda1 to some other partition. After this is done, I would recommend to go with GParted live CD and execute all partition...
View ArticleAnswer by Lev Levitsky for How to Extend primary partition(/dev/sda1) in linux?
The answers given so far don't seem to take into account that the free space you have is on another drive. I don't think you can easily extend a partition to another physical drive, although I may be...
View ArticleAnswer by Dolanor for How to Extend primary partition(/dev/sda1) in linux?
You need a live CD/temp OS to boot on it, resize the new partition to the right size, mount the old and new partitions and copy your files first with cp -avx /media/originalRootPartition...
View ArticleAnswer by sat for How to Extend primary partition(/dev/sda1) in linux?
You have to use resize2fs command,Which is used to resize your partition. For more information refer this link. http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions Ex: resize2fs /dev/sda 6000M You...
View ArticleHow to Extend primary partition(/dev/sda1) in linux?
Im having a problem, my primary partition is running out of space. Due to this, I can't access linux machine remotely (through vncserver). I have another drive (/dev/sdb) having much more free space....
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