wiki/wiki/linux/disk-management.md

# Disk Management

## Grow non-LVM ext4 partition

ATTENTION: Please note that the partition to enlarge has to be the last one with
the free space after it.

SSH into the VM.

- run `lsblk` check if the disk size has changed
- if not `reboot` the virtual machine

In the following it is assumed that the partition to enlarge is `/dev/sda2`

- change the size of the partition with `parted /dev/sda`
- inside of parted run `print free` and check where the free space after your
partition ends
- run `resizepart` and follow the instructions; End is the number you checked in
the last step
- `quit` parted

Now you need to resize the filesystem with `resize2fs /dev/sda2`.

## Error solving

### sudo: unable to open ... Read-only file system

Ususally the filesystem will go into read-only mode whe the system is running
and there is a consistency error.
To fix it run:

- `sudo fsck -Af -M` - check all filesystems
  If `fsck` gets stuck after its version banner:
  `fsck from util-linux 2.20.1`
  you may want to try using the ext4-specific fsck:
- `fsck.ext4 -f /dev/sda1`