Resizing partition via fdisk with non

Refer to the following sections of our Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) documentation on how to resize a partition.

I am attempting to resize my / partition. I have already expanded the disk capacity of the VM. When I start changing things in fdisk the results of my ...

The only way to change a partition size using fdisk is by deleting and recreating the partition. Important The partition you are resizing must be the last ...

You can increase the size of an active mounted partition (provided there is empty space at the end of the disk). You simply go into fdisk, list the partition ...

First, you need to identify the partition that you want to resize. You can use the command “lsblk” to list all the available disks and ...

There is NO way to change partition size, you must delete it and create a new one, and creating new partition does not change allocated space.

When you use fdisk to expand partitions, the start position of the new partition cannot be the same as that before the expansion. The following ...

This task describes the procedure to extend the partition and file system size to use the additional disk space that you specified in your cloned image.

fdisk as far as i know can not 'shrink a filesystem and keep data intact' fdisk only manages partitions - so it can 'shrink' a partition, by ...

Extending Or Shrinking a Linux Partition · Step 1: Identify the Partition · Step 2: Back Up Your Data · Step 3: Start fdisk · Step 4: Delete the ...