Friday, February 3, 2017

ubuntu - Linux: increase sda1 partition size

I want to increase sda1 partition in my vm because its almost full.
I choosed dynamic size in virtualbox, but it doesn't seem to work (the size don't increase dynamicaly).
Here partitions state


Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 610M 0 610M 0% /dev
tmpfs 126M 4,2M 122M 4% /run
/dev/sda1 6,6G 5,6G 619M 91% /
tmpfs 629M 92K 629M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5,0M 4,0K 5,0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 629M 0 629M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 126M 12K 126M 1% /run/user/1000

I resized partition size through windows with command line, i've got 15GB free, but when i tried to boot on a live cd of gparted, I can't resize sda1 because there is another partition between the sda1 partition and the greyed not used 15GB.


I tried command resize2f but it tells me that sda1 doesn't have the block I asked for.


Edit : result of command sudo parted -l


Model: ATA VBOX HARDDISK (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 16,8GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 7232MB 7231MB primary ext4 boot
2 7233MB 8589MB 1356MB extended
5 7233MB 8589MB 1356MB logical linux-swap(v1)

Is is possible to increase sda1 without deleting everything ? I already backed up my vm.
thanks

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