Well, is there anyway to combine the partitions without losing anything? My VM is running with CentOS 8 but I have also verified these steps on RHEL/CentOS 7 and RHEL 8 Linux. Confirm and wait a few minutes until everything is complete. This is goddamned stupid just like Microsoft Azure is in general.

9 months ago. Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Now, you can create another partition. Partition tables are created and modified using one of many partitioning tools. fdisk extend partition. respectively), when i create /home2, what file system do i use? Of course, I backed-up my entire system before playing with the partitions. Is this possible? How to extend non lvm root partition. Steps to expand partition in RHEL/CentOS 7 and 8 Linux. Step by step guide to resize primary partition. GParted is a GUI frontend. It should work as before. This page was last edited on 1 November 2020, at 13:16. 2. But our root partition is showing the same size as earlier i.e. Shrink and move the home and swap partition appropriately, resize root. Use Gparted and delete the partition that you do not want. So we must first delete swap partition here before we change size of partition as we need root to be the last partition in /dev/sda, So we will turn off the swap partition before we disable it, Now it is time to use fdisk utility to resize partition. 1 1049kB 211MB 210MB primary ext3 boot

Tested on a cloned VM and then implemented in production. You can resize it using the numbers or by mowing the arrows.

[Solved] Want to resize /home partition, is this possible, how. same for boot2. Now we must create Swap partition which we deleted earlier in this article.

I now have /hda1 as the boot/hda2 is extended with both my home and swap/hda3 is /and /hda4 is ntfs for winxp. Partition Table: msdos, Number Start End Size Type File system Flags

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To shrink an ext2/3/4 filesystem on the partition: Where sdaX stands for the partition you are shrinking, and size is the new size of the partition. To make one large ext4 partition, your command would look like this: If you have a Windows XP partition that you would like to move from drive-to-drive that also happens to be your boot partition, you can do so easily with GParted and keep Windows happy simply by deleting the following registry key PRIOR to the partition move: On an already partitioned disk, you can use parted to verify the alignment of a partition on a device. r/archlinux. Last edited by playdafunkimuzic (2009-01-19 05:35:17) Offline #2 2009-01-19 01:02:38. How to change size of partition in Linux using parted and fdisk without destroying data. I increased space for an Azure Ubuntu VM, but for some reason auto increase of partition space did not happen. <-- Now we need to delete root partition before we extend non lvm root partition. If you omit the device argument, parted will attempt to guess which device you want. Change fstab, reinstall grub on the new EFI partition, reboot the system on the newly created partition.