> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:37, Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:27:56PM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote:
>>>> On 31 Jan 2022, at 14:41, Martin McCormick <marti...@suddenlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> #I should be telling resize2fs to squeeze everything in to a 7GB
>>> #partition.
>>> sudo resize2fs /dev/loop0p2 +7G
>>> [...]
>>> then I delete P2 and then add a
>>> new partition which defaults to 2.
>>
>> This seems to replace the partition containing the filesystem you've just
>> resized with an empty one - doesn't it?
>
> When you change a partition table it doesn't do anything to the
> data on the disk, only the partition table. Every partition resizing
> operation that only has to move the end position essentially does it
> this way.
>
> (If you have to move the start then the data has to be moved first)
>
> If you were using parted then you might type:
>
> resizepart 2 7g
>
> which looks less scary, but does exactly the same thing.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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Hi Andy, I appreciate the data doesn't go anywhere, but...
>> then I delete P2 and then add a
>> new partition which defaults to 2.
doesn't that at least result in the appearance of deletion (an empty partition)
if done after the resizing?
