Timeline for Can't resize main partition on CentOS 7
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| Nov 16, 2015 at 18:29 | comment | added | Rui F Ribeiro | I do remember there are some step missing of the reside2fs text though....for people using some journaled filesystems, you have to disable journaling before the resize, and enable it again after the resize | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 17:14 | history | edited | Rui F Ribeiro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2015 at 17:01 | vote | accept | Dan Hastings | ||
| Nov 16, 2015 at 17:01 | comment | added | Dan Hastings | ah ok this makes sense. Sucks as i didnt want to loose what i had copied over to the 20gb partition. No harm though this allowed me to create a single large partition. thanks for your help | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 14:11 | comment | added | Rui F Ribeiro | Added the URL to the answer, and for the sake of completeness for LVM too. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 14:11 | history | edited | Rui F Ribeiro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2015 at 14:09 | comment | added | Rui F Ribeiro | fdisk is not kosher, you delete the existing partition and (re)create it with a bigger size, then grow the filesystem. Now that has to be done in rescue mode if it involves the main partition. I think I have an URL somewhere. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 14:08 | comment | added | Dan Hastings | i tried parted and this does not work with my OS anymore. fdisk only seems to create or delete. have you any exampleS? im assuming i only need 2 command to run | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 14:05 | history | answered | Rui F Ribeiro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |