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On 06/20/2014 09:16 AM, Abhrajyoti Kirtania wrote:
> Thank you for the reply.
>
> How can i create unused space (shrink) at the end of original divide? As per the
> man page "fdisk -u /dev/sdb # move sdb1 partition end + 4096 sectors" not giving
> expected result.
>
> Even i tried with resize2fs but not helping
>
> test@ubuntu:~/in-place$ sudo resize2fs /dev/sda8 4M
>
> resize2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
>
> resize2fs: New size smaller than minimum (45572)

You have tried to resize the filesystem _to_ 4 megabytes, not reduce
its current size _by_ 4 Megabytes. Your current filesystem will of
course not fit in 4 Megabytes.

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