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How to resize linux partitions without cd/usb
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resize_linux.txt
Resize Linux partition without any disks/cds/usb things!
Works on Ubuntu 14.04, probably fine on others
1.
sudo losetup /dev/loop0
2. /path/to/file is found with 1., xxx is the number of MiBs to allocate, note: 1MiB ~ 1MB
sudo dd if=/dev/zero bs=1MiB of=/path/to/file conv=notrunc oflag=append count=xxx
3.
sudo losetup -c /dev/loop0
4.
sudo resize2fs /dev/loop0
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