Timeline for Is it safe to resize partition on /?
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| Aug 1, 2012 at 18:58 | comment | added | Goulash | Well, I used gparted ( booted from ubuntu install CD ), resized the partition from 600gb to 100gb, then installed windows on the new 500gb partition, only issue was i had to reenter Ubuntu to the boot manager for dual booting,working great :D | |
| Aug 1, 2012 at 18:56 | vote | accept | Goulash | ||
| Jul 27, 2012 at 22:36 | comment | added | mrb | @Patrick, Yes, they (parted, resize2fs) let you shrink. They find file data currently beyond the desired resize point, move it to before the resize point, update structures, set the new fs size, and set the new partition size (except resize2fs, for which you manually update partition boundaries). It can be time-consuming if there's a lot of data beyond the desired resize point. | |
| Jul 27, 2012 at 21:00 | comment | added | phemmer | @mrb will those CD tools let you shrink a filesystem? I wasn't aware of any tool that could shrink a filesystem without copying the data elsewhere, rebuilding the filesystem, and then copying data back. | |
| Jul 27, 2012 at 16:41 | comment | added | Tim | Parted Magic CD is also a good live CD with the gparted front end. | |
| Jul 27, 2012 at 16:35 | comment | added | Goulash | Ah, awesome :D I still have the installation disk somewhere | |
| Jul 27, 2012 at 16:33 | history | answered | mrb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |