Gparted without GUI / X

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Is there a CLI gparted version without GUI / X?

parted shows warnings like the following when resizing / moving partitions:

WARNING: you are attempting to use parted to operate on (resize) a file system.
parted's file system manipulation code is not as robust as what you'll find in
dedicated, file-system-specific packages like e2fsprogs. We recommend
you use parted only to manipulate partition tables, whenever possible.
Support for performing most operations on most types of file systems
will be removed in an upcoming release.

Error: file system has incompatible feature enabled. Compatible features are has_journal, dir_index, filetype, sparse_super and large_file Use tune2fs or debugfs to remove features.

gparted can move / resize them. I thought they were using the same libraries. Is there any alternative to parted?

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The filesystem resize ability was long crufty and unmaintained in parted, which is why it was removed in the 3.0 release several years ago. If you update to the latest parted 3.2, it has a resizepart command that only resizes the partition, and you have to use another filesystem specific utility to resize the filesystem within the partition. In the case of ext[234] that is resize2fs. When expanding the partition you resize the partition first, then the filesystem. When shrinking, you reverse the order, and make sure you leave a little extra room just in case; you can always re-expand the fs after resizing the partition.

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GParted doesn’t find partition in encrypted drive

(The following assumes that your distribution uses sudo to run commands as the superuser; if that's not the case, then become superuser with su - and omit the sudo.)

Boot from the installation media.
Start a live session.
Open a terminal.

Open the encrypted partition using cryptsetup:

sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 sda5_crypt

Check that the logical volumes have been autodiscovered using lvs:
```
sudo lvs -o full_name,size
```
If they have not been autodiscovered force a LVM rescan with vgchange:
```
sudo vgchange -aay
```
Examine the size of the LVM physical volume with pvs:
```
sudo pvs
```
If there is no free space, then extend the physical volume to cover the partition with
```
sudo pvresize /dev/mapper/sda5_crypt
```
Examine the size of the logical volumes with
```
sudo lvs -o full_name,size
```
You can now resize individual LVM logical volumes using lvresize.

sudo lvresize --resizefs --size ‹size› ‹logicalvolume›
- ‹size› is in MiB by default; use nG for GiB; see the manual page for details.
- ‹logicalvolume› is the name as given by lvs -o fullname.

Can `parted` move a partition like `gparted`

parted used to be able to move partitions and resize (certain) file systems, but this feature was removed in version 3.0 because it was deemed to difficult to maintain.

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