Hardware :: Partition Shrink To Filesystem Size?

Apr 16, 2010

How can I shrink a partition to the filesystem size?I copied my ubuntu installation via dd from a smaller partition to a little bit bigger one to have all the same settings and programs and upgraded the distribution afterwards. Now the filesystem is smaller than the partition size. It would be nice to have both partitions have the same size so I could copy back the newer distribution someday ...GParted recognizes the new partition as 27 GB, the filesystem is just 25 GB.Is there a nice way to resize the partition to exact the size of the filesystem so that the filesystems remains untouched and no data might me lost?

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I am using Fedora core 10. I have changed my partition size of Linux from windows. After I finished resizing the partition, I rebooted my system to the Linux platform. While booting it gave me an
error: repair filesytem #1:
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Aug 22, 2010

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Found this thread in the forum: [URL]

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Here is screenshot showing my current partition in Gparted.
Screenshot-1.jpg
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Well... I've been givin this task, to make a script that shrinks the /dev/sda1 partition...generally my scripts is working.. it just destroys all data on the sda1 partition when it gets shrinked... i still dont get why =PYou see... i have to shrink the partition sda1 ( with ubuntu 10.04.1 ), but with the installation intact, through a script...I boot via the ubunto live cd, use my script, and my new partition sda3 is created perfectly as ext4.But as i mentioned earliere, data is lost on sda1

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[code]....

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Jun 24, 2010

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Jan 19, 2011

I run Fedora FC13-x64. Recently I added a few TB's of RAID5 storage tto my server and moved most data from the root filesystem to that. Now my root volume is way too big. My basic install resulted in a 1TB LVM volume group entirely dedicated to a single lv_root.

Now I want to make room and eventually clone this disk to a much smaller root disk. I see many threads about reducing the size of an LVM logical volume. My first steps were succesful. I used lvreduce and resize2fs to reduce the size of the logical volume and filesystem. I also user pvreduce to reduce the size of the physical volume group.

But still gparted and fdisk report the physicalk volume (/dev/sde2) as 900GB. The embedded LVM stuff is as small as 60GB. Anyway LVM manager and GParted doe not allow me to shrink /dev/sdf2 to snuggly fit the LVM stuff in it.

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Mar 22, 2010

I'd like to share with you an experiment. look at following steps: create an empty file with a low level tool like "dd"

# dd if=/dev/zero of=fatimage bs=512 count=200K

we now have an about 100MB zeroed file.

format it with mkdosfs (FAT16)

# mkdosfs fatimage

now we have a 100MB fat filesystem. We could check it with dosfsck. Mount it on loop, and copy saome data in it, so that it have a percentage of used space of about 30% (I've tried to copy on it a 30MB data directory). Then umount it.

# mount -o loop -t auto fatimage mountpoint
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# umount mountpoint

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Oct 26, 2009

this might deviate from "installation" theme.. I'm writing an immediate problem since the last thread: [URL] problem is the vista partition is impossible to shrink now, though there's 50 G free space. Every try found in : [URL] does not work including Perfect disk degrag. I think this is because fedora system is there. some code is written to vista partition..that vista cannot handle.....

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I recently installed ubuntu alongside windows 7 on my machine. I ardly know anything about partitions, but I managed to shrink the windows partition to make space, abd then use the ubuntu installer to create the ubuntu partition. But I hadn't realized that there were actually 3 Windows partitions - "Acer C:", "Recovery", and "System, Active, Primary Partition".

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Aug 24, 2010

I installed fedora 13 64 bit and it works great but I encountered several issues when setting up guest OS with KVM. The problem seems to be related to selinux. But let me first ask question about logical volume. By Default fedora created logical volumes:

[Code].....

"If you expect that you or other users will store data on the system, create a separate partition for the /home directory within a volume group. With a separate /home partition, you may upgrade or reinstall Fedora without erasing user data files." seems to suggest I have to create a separate physical partition and assign that to /home. But reading elsewhere it seems to suggest logical volume acts like a partition. My goal is to make it easy in case fedora is hosed and I have to re-install it without affecting /home where my cirtical data resides. Given above do I need to create a separate physical partition or I am just fine?

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May 10, 2010

I need to create a temporary Filesystem and the only way to do it is to reduce /var and create a new filesystem 3GB size

Code:
df -h
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-var
9.7G 1.5G 7.8G 16% /var

my question is according to google search I need to umount the filesystem point in order to reduce its size.... so it means I will require that nobody uses the system? since /var logs a lot information?

I also have the option to reduce /root but I think is more complicated.

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I looked at the inode usage and there is pretty much space available for root device

Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 640K 103K 538K 16% /

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14M ./etc
4.0K ./mnt[code]....

It just driving me crazy and interesting too. This is big problem for us since the root disk / is full and some of the function in our site is failing.

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