I have a 500GB external drive. It had two partitions, each around 250GB. I removed the first partition. I'd like to move the 2nd to the left, so it consumes 100% of the drive. How can this be accomplished without any GUI tools (CLI only)?
fdisk
Disk /dev/sdd: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc80b1f3d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd2 29374 60801 252445410 83 Linux
parted
Model: ST350032 0AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
2 242GB 500GB 259GB primary ext3 type=83
dumpe2fs
Filesystem volume name: extstar
Last mounted on: <not available>
Filesystem UUID: f0b1d2bc-08b8-4f6e-b1c6-c529024a777d
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: has_journal dir_index filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file
Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash
Default mount options: (none)
Filesystem state: clean
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 15808608
Block count: 63111168
Reserved block count: 0
Free blocks: 2449985
Free inodes: 15799302
First block: 0
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
Fragments per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 8208
Inode blocks per group: 513
Filesystem created: Mon Feb 15 08:07:01 2010
Last mount time: Fri May 21 19:31:30 2010
Last write time: Fri May 21 19:31:30 2010
Mount count: 5
Maximum mount count: 29
Last checked: Mon May 17 14:52:47 2010
Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
Next check after: Sat Nov 13 14:52:47 2010
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
First inode: 11
Inode size: 256
Required extra isize: 28
Desired extra isize: 28
Journal inode: 8
Default directory hash: half_md4
Directory Hash Seed: d0363517-c095-4f53-baa7-7428c02fbfc6
Journal backup: inode blocks
Journal size: 128M