I am working remotely with a beaglebone black system.
I found this information on youtube about expanding the root filesystem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK6wfV_19ac (watch from 12:50)
The author of the video demonstrates resizing of the filesystem by literally deleting the filesystem which contains /, and then creating a new partition.
(Unless I've completely misunderstood?)
This seems completely crazy. I can't understand how this worked and didn't destroy the filesystem? It seems like a complete fluke that no data was damaged in this process and that all the inodes are still valid.
This makes me wonder if I completely misunderstood something - and so I am now worried that this is actually a valid thing to do.
I would like a second opinion on this - is what the author instructs in the video the correct way to expand a filesystem? If so, why did deleting the partition containing all of the data of the root of the filesystem not destroy that data?
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