Resizing of Paration without Loss of Data

Create New Partaion of size +20M

# fdisk -l

# fdisk /dev/sda

p

n

enter defaul size

+20M

w

# partprobe /dev/sda

# fdisk -l

Mount New Partition on /mymount

# cd Desktop/

# ls

# mkdir /mymount

# vim /etc/fstab (For permanent mount )

# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda9

# mount -a

# df -h

# cd /mymount/

Create Some sample File And Folder For testing

# touch a1

# touch a11

# touch a111

# touch a111

# touch a1111

# touch a11111

# ls

# mkdir a2

# mkdir a22

# mkdir a222

# mkdir a222

# mkdir a2222

# mkdir a22222

# ls

# umount /dev/sda9

# fsck -n /dev/sda9

# tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda9

Now delete Partition and again create Partition with increasing size +40M

# fdisk /dev/sda

p

d

n

partition number

default size press enter

give size +40M

w

# partprobe /dev/sda

# e2fsck -f /dev/sda9

# resize2fs /dev/sda9

# fsck -n /dev/sda9

# tune2fs -j /dev/sda9

# partprobe /dev/sda

# mount -a

# df -h

# cd /mymount/

# ls // (check whether data is lost or not)