uuid -> /dev/sdx partition resize

Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 24 23:54:56 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:19 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> I have 1 drive /dev/sda (which is actually a hardware raid 10 array
> but Fedora doesn't know that)
> 
> I want to resize my partitions bigger.
> Going to use Clonezilla to make an image of each partition and save it
> on another box.
> 
> Then re-partition and format new bigger partitions.
> Then restore images with Clonezilla.
> 
> But I know UUID's will be wrong and I don't feel like creating new
> ones. I just want to use /dev/sdx
> 
> Am I correct in assuming I only need to edit /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf
> or is there anything else I need to edit?

I highly recommend using gparted.  I used it via Ubuntu 10.4 live.   I
am not sure if its on the Fedora live distros or not. 

With gparted you don't need to copy any of the filesystem anywhere.  It
will resize the partition and move the data on the drive without copying
it anywhere.




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