Resizing external 4 TB HDD NTFS partition
by usr345 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#58SB9)
I have an external 4TB HDD with NTFS partition:
Code:# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 3.7 TiB, 4000787029504 bytes, 7814037167 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 33553920 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 1F43D503-0E02-4798-B698-8CB4751B2518
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 34 262177 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sdb2 264192 7814035455 7813771264 3.7T Microsoft basic data
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary./dev/sdb2 has about 1 TB of my backup data. I want to convert the drive to ext4, because file attributes are not saved when copying the files and it irritates me.
When I run gparted, it doesn't allow me to shrink the partition. What can I do?
Maybe, using 4096 sector size will improve the performance.
Code:# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 3.7 TiB, 4000787029504 bytes, 7814037167 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 33553920 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 1F43D503-0E02-4798-B698-8CB4751B2518
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 34 262177 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sdb2 264192 7814035455 7813771264 3.7T Microsoft basic data
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary./dev/sdb2 has about 1 TB of my backup data. I want to convert the drive to ext4, because file attributes are not saved when copying the files and it irritates me.
When I run gparted, it doesn't allow me to shrink the partition. What can I do?
Maybe, using 4096 sector size will improve the performance.