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["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 01 August 2007 17:16, Fernando Costa wrote:

> Rajko M. wrote:
> > On Tuesday 31 July 2007 20:50, Fernando Costa wrote:
> >> the beginning it had 68GB size, after resizing it has 100GB
> >> but when I click on My Computer (using KDE) it appears as a 100 GB Media
> >> but it's total size still appears as 68GB. How can I fix it.
> >
> > What resizing method you have used?
> > Give us few steps how you did it.
> > What file system type is reported in My Computer?
> I used Partition Magic to resize the partition, it is suppossed that the
> filesystem would be resized to but it didn't. At the begining my
> partition (non-bootable) was 68GB and i used the free space in my hard
> disk to resize the ext3 partition to 100GB, after that I run fsck to
> repair anything in my new resized partition. But in My computer the size
> remains 68GB but it recognizes that the partition is a 100GB one, the
> system type is ext3.

Hi Fernando,

As Sunny said you have to resize file system too and instead of Partition 
Magic I would use as root:
 # yast2 disk
it will start GUI. This is the same as:
 YaST Control Center -- System -- Partitioner

Google on "resize ext3 partition":
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/resizing-ext3-partitions-with-parted
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-75438.html
http://www.hafenscher.net/wiki/index.php?page=How_to_resize_an_EXT3_partition
http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions
and so on. 

-- 
Regards,
Rajko.
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