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Resize partitions without losing data

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Resize partitions without losing data

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- [Instructor] Resizing partitions can be daunting, but it's really not that hard, and as long as you take good notes, not that risky. As long as we're resizing our partitions larger, we can even do this with a drive mounted for most file systems, although it is still safer to unmount them first. The process starts by taking note of the old partition boundaries. I'd recommend writing them down or taking a screenshot. Then, we edit the partition table and delete the partition. Just because we deleted the partition, does not mean we've deleted the data. Remember that the master boot record is only 512 bytes and the GPT partition table is about 1500. Partition editing software only to use a very small portion of the disk. Then, we create a new larger partition and resize the file system. If you miss any of these steps, the usable size won't increase. Before we go further, let's mount up slash dev slash SDB one so we can…

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