Klaus-Peter Schrage<kpschrage@xxxxxx> wrote on 03.12.2008 08:54: >> That should basically do it, right? Any things which could go wrong >> except for the odd typo when recreating the partition? > Ok, but as I can see, you'll end up with a new, larger /dev/sda1 and an > empty filesystem mounted on / (aside from a new swap). How do you want to > recover your data from your old virtual drive? Actually, deleting a partition does not wipe it from disk. Fdisk will just delete the entry from the partition table (well, it *should* not do anything else to the partition, right). The /dev/sda1 is the first partition on the virtual drive, so I can just recreate it with the same starting and different end cylinder. Of course, no other changes must happen to the drive while doing so. > What I did in your situation: After growing my virtual drive with > vmware-vdiskmanager I booted into the virtual machine with a GParted > bootable disk. With GParted I could resize the file system on / without > data loss. Ok, thanks for the tip. That looks a lot easier than my own method. — /Alex -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
