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Resize a partition image with GParted?

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Mar 15, 202627346 views
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I've resized partitions in GParted before. Now I'd like to move a large but mostly empty partition to a smaller drive. Instead of resizing it in place, I'd prefer to make a copy on a 3rd drive (drive image using dd), resize the copy, and then dd the copy to the new drive. But I don't think Gparted …

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I'm not sure what the situation was 5 years ago, but today it's cake. To grow or shrink the disk after you could use . Keep in mind that this would wipe out any backup partition table at the end of the disk, or other data if not used properly. The b…

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