On Dec 30 2006 15:02, Bart Geesink wrote:

On Saturday 30 December 2006 14:05, Jan Kalcic wrote:

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Hi All,

I'm working with a virtual machine and suddenly I realized I have no more space on root. Then I create a bigger disk file and I copied the old one to the new one using dd. The problem is that now I see the right

Beep. Don't copy using dd-style unless you exactly want that. Instead, create a new disk label on the new disk, with the new sizes you want (all some or greater as the old), and copy on a per-partition basis. That actually leaves room for fs expansion.

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size of the new (bigger) hard disk through YaST and fdisk but actually I can use only the space I had in the old hard disk (when I use df for instance)

Any idea to solve this problem?

You can do two things: Either you can make your filesystem bigger, if it is supported by your filesystem (for instance for reiserfs you could use resize_reiserfs). Or you could make a new "disk file" format it with a filesystem of your choice, have both the old and the new "disk files" mounted as loop devices, and copy all contents over.

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