2nd March 2020 By Hitesh Jethva
Resizing or extending a partition is the process of increasing or decreasing the size of the partition. You can either extend or shrink the partition as per your needs. You will need to resize the partition when you are not satisfied with the partition size, your system partition is running out of free space, some partition is full while some partition still has large free space
If you are a system administrator and working on the Linux system, resizing or growing the filesystem is a challenging task for you. You will need to resize an existing partition when your partition size is full. In that case, you can use resize2fs utility to increase and decrease a filesystem size. The resize2fs is a command-line utility that allows you to resize ext2, ext3, or ext4 file systems. Continue Read