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I was searching for the normal way of how to grow my partition, this link does not help then but you have to click to find out. This should perhaps be already in the header? It is just an idea. No drama, if this edit is not accepted, I am new here.

edited Jan 2, 2021 at 19:48

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How can I expand ext4 partition size using command-line?

I have a drive with this configuration:

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000f1b8b

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2612    20971520   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           60736       60801      525312   82  Linux swap / Solaris

There is 478GB unallocated space, how would I go about adding this space to /dev/sda1 without losing the data that is currently on /dev/sda1? (the filesystem is ext4).

NOTE: it is a server with only SSH, no GUI for running stuff like gparted.

asked Mar 6, 2013 at 19:59

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