how to resize a filesystem in fedora and opensuse does any one know how to resize the filesystem in fedora and opensuse i have succeded in doing it in centos using fdisk i did the following steps i delete the partition using d then i create a new partition using n and then i save the changes then i run resize2fs and its done but in fedora and opensuse its not happening.
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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
# cp -a $data mountpoint
# umount mountpoint
check filesystem with dosfscheck. We can notice used clusters and verify bytes used on that filesystem. And we could evalutate a space amuont to shrink the filesystem... why? Just for a didactical test. we could decide to shrink our 100MB filesystem to 50 MB: we have about 30 MB of data cpied on it, so there wil be anout 70 MB of free space. How to resize 100MB fat filesystem to shrink it from 100MB to 50 MB? If I had used an ext2/3 (or ext4 too but I don't know it) or a ntfs filesystem, I would easly been able to shrink it with resize2fs or ntfsresize. But as regards Fat filesystem I don't know any tool that work just on the filesystem.
I've tried, fatresize, but It return a strange error... searching for I suspect it is deeply based on parted and it expects to work on a partition not only on a filesystem like that described above. So is there anyone who knows, which tool I could use to shrink that filesystem? If you wolud like to make the test following above steps and tring to use fatresize program I will be grateful if you report your results there.
I need to resize an ext4 filesystem partition, How can I do it being sure it wont get f#@ked up?
Is it safe to do it using a gparted live cd?
I am very new to linux, and I have a question regarding the filesystem check (fsck). The power recently went out and when I tried to restart linux the following error appears:
*/dev/sda1 contains file system w/errors, check forced it then goes on to say..
*An error occured during the file system check. Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue) I wasn't sure what to do, but checked some other online forums and they suggested running fsck manually - so I typed in the root password - and used the command, "fsck -A -V ; echo == $? ==" it then gave the following message
*WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage
*Would you like to continue (y/n)
Again, I wasn't sure what to do so i just checked no. I then manually turned off the computer and was prompted at the beginning to press Alt-3. I was brought to another screen and it informed me one of the drives was degraded and suggested rebuilding the array. I tried doing this, but it still brings me back to the original error of, "/dev/sda1 contains file system w/errors, check forced," and the process continues.
Also, when I tried to rebuild the array, I didn't backup any of the data on our home directory before doing this (which was probably a big mistake). After being prompted to type the root password, I was able to give the ls command and look at all the directories...the home directory where our data was stored was empty and I am afraid I may have lost some information. Is there a possibility that data was lost when I was trying to rebuild using the old drives?
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This only started happening quite recently - before this I could boot to Linux quite happily.
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< https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...ptedPartitions >
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