Use parted for resize space with owncloud appliance

[mana]

Hi. How can I use parted with the resizepart command? Which partition should I indicate? Primary, extended or logical? Risk of losing data? Thank you so much

[Christian_Voelker]

Hi,

you have searched and found this article?

How To Extend Disk Space on Next-/Owncloud Appliance

Kudos @knebb Check the steps (these steps are valid for a Owncloud image downloaded just recently, some numbers might change in later or earlier editions); Nextcloud should be similar. Step 1: Extend the HDD of the virtual machine (VM) itself Power off the VM Take a snapshot for rollback in case something goes wrong Edit Settings and extend from 50GB to the desired size Power on the VM Step 2: Edit partition table Login on the command line as root fdisk /dev/sda Print current partition tabl…

Any reasons why you want to use parted?

/CV

[mana]

Hi, and thanks for your answer.
Yes, I see article.
Parted seems simpler to me.
I’m not an expert.

[Christian_Voelker]

Hi,

again. In the article it is describe step-by-step. You expect it to be simpler by using a different tool?

Anyways, of course it is up to you.

/CV

[mana]

Hi Christian.
Thank you again. I’m not expert: the parted tool seems simpler with one step.

I do not know what to do: How to extend ownCloud storage
In this article speaks of parted, but don’t understend if it’s right.

In fact, afterwards the article you propose is posted.