
This may influence how and where their products appear on our site, but vendors cannot pay to influence the content of our reviews. We may be compensated by vendors who appear on this page through methods such as affiliate links or sponsored partnerships. Grow partition ‘/dev/sda1’ from 14.65 GiB to 21.You can simplify various partition tasks, such as rebuilding the MBR, copying a disk, and doing a disk surface test, by relying on a handy third-party app. The physical size of the device is 3840000 blocksĮither the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!Ĭheck file system on partition ‘/dev/sda1’: ErrorĬhecking partition ‘/dev/sda1’ before resize/move failed. The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 5487104 blocks Job: Check file system on partition ‘/dev/sda1’ = Grow partition ‘/dev/sda1’ from 14.65 GiB to 21.71 GiB In response to the first question about the details given under the error: If you do have an answer, please tell me if there's any more information I can provide about my situation that I haven't already given. However, KDE partition manager was unable to grow ext4 to its original size (see images 1, 2 and 3).Ĭan anything be done to get things back to normal, or failing that, restore some of the data on the ext4 filesystem? I didn't have any irreplaceable documents on there really but I got a lot of settings customised to my liking and I'd like to make the restoration process as quick as possible. Everything worked fine, moving partitions about and resizing the swap space.

Trying to backpedal my decision, I took the sd card out and used my RPi to reformat it back to how it was. The supposed file system size of 21 odd GB was larger than the available device (partition) size of 15GB and it couldn't continue. This partitioned fine but upon choosing Debian at GRUB on my PC, initramfs told me that my filesystem was probably corrupt and that I couldn't boot properly.

I made the stupid decision to try and shrink and move both partitions to allow myself a blank NTFS partition of about 11GiB for using with any Windows device.


I decided to add a new partition to my bootable sd card which contained a 21GB partition of an EXT4 file system (Debian with KDE) and about 8GB of linux swapspace on another partition, using KDE partition manager on my Raspberry Pi (as opposed to the PC I usually use with my bootable drive). I'm sorry if I mix different units in this but these are the units I see when working.
