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I know this is old, but will this keep the data if you delete the partition?

Canadian Luke
– Canadian Luke

2014-05-07 03:02:28 +00:00
Commented May 7, 2014 at 3:02
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@CanadianLuke, yes, deleting the partition in fdisk only modifies the partition table. If you recreate it the same size, there will be no change at all. The data is never altered unless you shrink a partition and create another logical or extended partition in the middle of what your partition used to be, in which case the partition record for that extended/logical partition will be written over some data there.

Stéphane Chazelas
– Stéphane Chazelas

2014-05-07 10:47:51 +00:00
Commented May 7, 2014 at 10:47
This also works great for ntfs partitions (with an existing volume, with data).

Kenny Evitt
– Kenny Evitt

2014-08-02 19:55:50 +00:00
Commented Aug 2, 2014 at 19:55
That sounds reasonable, but what if i have Extended, Linux LVM and Linux swap/Solaris partitions which starts on the end of Linux partition? Should I delete these partitions>? I am worried that in that case, filesystem won't start, becuase may be using Linux LVM for example in same start and end. And i don't want to loose data too.

changtung
– changtung

2018-09-21 10:40:16 +00:00
Commented Sep 21, 2018 at 10:40
@cyan resizing a LVM logical volume with a ext4 FS on it, or resizing a partition used as a physical volume for LVM would be different questions with different procedures.

Stéphane Chazelas
– Stéphane Chazelas

2018-09-21 10:48:02 +00:00
Commented Sep 21, 2018 at 10:48

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