resizing active partition on Debian 8 Jessie

emiratesgaming

Hello Guys.

I am hosting a Game Server on a VPS from Chapal.net . it is a cloud server and i am using the package which says 7000 PKR = Pakistani Rupees.

Here are the specs of the Cloud Server.

4GB Memory
2 Core Processor1
80GB Disk
2TB Transfer

I upgraded from 2 GB to 4 GB Package.

Earlier my HDD size was 40 GB according to plan . after upgrade it remains the same. But the hosting company confirmed that it has been upgrade but i do not see it as of yet. it seems i have to resize the current active partition of /root

root@debian:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 791M 17M 774M 3% /run
/dev/sda1 38G 14G 23G 37% /
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 396M 0 396M 0% /run/user/1001
tmpfs 396M 0 396M 0% /run/user/0

so what command to make it 80 GB to resize the current partition which is active?

Please help.

Ishaq

resize2fs /dev/sda1

MasonR

Likely, you'll just need to run a resize2fs command.

edit: @Ishaq's quick on the draw today

Venatha

Chances are you'll probably need to extend your partition table also to use the new sector count, before extending the filesystem as mentioned above.

That normally involves deleting the / partition, and re-creating it using the original sector start point.

emiratesgaming

root@debian:~# resize2fs /dev/sda1
resize2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
The filesystem is already 10047744 (4k) blocks long. Nothing to do!

any idea?

@Ishaq said:
resize2fs /dev/sda1

exception0x876

@emiratesgaming said:
root@debian:~# resize2fs /dev/sda1
resize2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
The filesystem is already 10047744 (4k) blocks long. Nothing to do!

any idea?

@Ishaq said:
resize2fs /dev/sda1

You need to resize the partition too (use parted, fdisk etc.)

emiratesgaming

can you guide me over team viewer?

msg7086

@emiratesgaming said:
can you guide me over team viewer?

.1. You didn't show us how fdisk -l looks like.

.2. Why not following some guide?

msg7086

Basic idea behind this is:

1. Write down all parameters shown in fdisk -l, or screen shot it.

2. Disable and delete swap if there is one.

3. Delete your root partition.

4. Re-create your root partition using the same start position.

5. Activate that partition.

6. Run partprobe to update partition table, and do resize2fs as you did.

emiratesgaming

here you go

root@debian:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80 GiB, 85899345920 bytes, 167772160 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xac935b07

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 80383999 80381952 38.3G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 80386046 83884031 3497986 1.7G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 80386048 83884031 3497984 1.7G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

WSS

You are kind of fucked with the secondary partition. Swapoff /dev/sda5, delete sda5, delete sda2, then resize sda1, then recreate sda2.

emiratesgaming

could you guide me?

WSS

I just did.

emiratesgaming

with command sorry if i am repeating

WSS

As I said.

swapoff /dev/sda5
go into fdisk and delete /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda2
resize /dev/sda1
resize2fs /dev/sda1 
recreate /dev/sda2 (as a primary, fuck logical for two partitions).
Change /dev/sda2 to swap.
mkswap /dev/sda2
edit /etc/fstab
reboot

If you need more help than that- pay someone to help you so you don't fuck it up.