How to shrink root filesystem without booting a livecd

A quick and dirty tutorial on resizing a root Ubuntu partition via the command line and why we follow a particular process.

2021年5月24日 — Either boot from a LiveCD and find the right drive to perform those instruction on, or use GParted Live with a GUI to shrink pve-root.

2024年7月8日 — Select the root partition and click resize option and resize the un allocated space. Apply by clicking the gren tick button in the option.

2015年9月1日 — To shrink the partition requires unmounting it, which of course is not possible for the root partition in normal operation.

2021年8月11日 — How to resize a Root Partition in Ubuntu (Linux) (GPT) · Check Disk status with parted command · Remove Current Partition: · Create and Resize ...

2024年6月21日 — How to Resize Partitions in Arch Linux. Step 1: Boot into a Live USB or CD. ... Step 2: Open GParted and Locate Your Root Partition.

2020年12月3日 — You can remove the swap partition and extend the root by another 10GB which is released from swap. This would be the easiest for you.

2022年3月24日 — I have Ubuntu installed on my Acer laptop. I want to resize the root partition and I already have a large free space, but it's to the left of ...

2013年3月18日 — You will have to unmount the swap partition and then either delete it (and then manke a new one after expanding /home) or move it.