Re: Question about Increasing the size of the Primary Partition

2017-05-09 Thread Martin McCormick
Felix Miata writes: > If the original is EXT#, then resize2fs following forced fsck is all it > takes, > no mkfs. Great news, it's ext4 done last Saturday. I had a SSD fail so built the desired on an old 10 GB Maxtor drive and when it worked, i used dd to save the image, knowing that it

Re: Question about Increasing the size of the Primary Partition

2017-05-08 Thread Felix Miata
Martin McCormick composed on 2017-05-08 19:50 (UTC-0500): > After using dd to copy a smaller disk image on to a > larger drive, I get the general idea that one leaves the starting > sector alone, deletes the remaining partition which is swap and > then changes the end point of the Primary pa

Re: Question about Increasing the size of the Primary Partition

2017-05-08 Thread Michael Milliman
I'm looking at some possibilities now, but need a little more info on your exact situation. Is the current image file large enough to accommodate the new partitioning, or does its size have to be increased as well? 73's, de WB5VQX -- The Very Quick X-ray On May 8, 2017 7:50 PM, "Martin McCormick"

Question about Increasing the size of the Primary Partition

2017-05-08 Thread Martin McCormick
After using dd to copy a smaller disk image on to a larger drive, I get the general idea that one leaves the starting sector alone, deletes the remaining partition which is swap and then changes the end point of the Primary partition to the maximum number of sectors minus the swap space so