From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to move ext4 partition
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 22:16:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230920221647.5e3f00e7@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uefkdh$mk9$1@ciao.gmane.io>
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:24:17 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> However, GParted apparently does. Can GParted move an ext4 filesystem
> to a destination location that overlaps its starting location?
>
> For example, I have a 500GB partition containing an ext4 filesystem
> starting at sector 2048 (1MiB). I want to move that filesystem so that
> it starts at sector 3*2048 (3MiB).
>
> Can that be done in-place?
>
> Or should I just back up the filesystem to a second drive and start
> from scratch?
Given that you'd want to backup before such an operation anyway, you may
as well then restore from that backup. I'm sure it will be a lot quicker
than GParted's moving all the data around.
--
Neil Bothwick
He who laughs last thinks slowest!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-20 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-20 20:24 [gentoo-user] How to move ext4 partition Grant Edwards
2023-09-20 21:16 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2023-09-20 21:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2023-09-20 21:57 ` Victor Ivanov
2023-09-20 22:12 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-09-20 23:03 ` Grant Edwards
2023-09-21 9:20 ` Victor Ivanov
2023-09-20 22:58 ` Grant Edwards
2023-09-21 9:32 ` Victor Ivanov
2023-09-21 20:23 ` Grant Edwards
2023-09-21 21:39 ` Jack
2023-09-21 22:17 ` Grant Edwards
2023-09-20 23:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-09-20 21:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Wol
2023-09-20 22:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2023-09-22 6:48 ` Wols Lists
2023-09-23 12:16 ` Håkon Alstadheim
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