OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Jan 6 17:32:46 UTC 2016


On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 10:16 -0700, jd1008 wrote:
> by catenation to a partition on an external drive.
> 
> I do not want to shrink the fedora partition, but I could
> if necessary; in which case does fedora have a partition
> resizer?
> 
> I know I can back up the fedora partition, resize it and
> and restore from backup. But that could take many hours
> of down time. I was wondering if there is a util that
> can do it to an unmounted fedora partition.

Resizing the partition can be done with gparted, but note that you
first have to resize the filesystem within the partition, and how you
do that depends on which fs you have as not all of them support
reducing the size.

poc


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