Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

[Dylan <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 19 Jul 2004 17:40 pm, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
> The filesystem is ext3.  When I tried to run your command I got:
>
> baa:~ # resize_reiserfs /dev/hda2
> resize_reiserfs 3.6.13 (2003 www.namesys.com)
>
>
> reiserfs_open: the reiserfs superblock cannot be found on /dev/hda2.
>
> resize_reiserfs: cannot open '/dev/hda2': Success
>
> Aborted
>
> I do not know if ext3 and reiser are the same -- if so, perhaps I
> must boot from a cd and do this?  This is my / filesystem so of
> course it is mounted.


NO, ext3 and reiserfs are not the same, you should ALWAYS boot from some 
other disk to do this sort of thing to the root fs.


>
> On Monday 19 July 2004 11:23, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 18:06 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 10:56 -0500, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
> > > > I juggled partitions and resized my / partition to cover a
> > > > larger area of the disk.  However, after I did it, I get
> > > > inconsistencies. According to t he YaST partitioner and
> > > > according to fdisk, the resize did happen.  According to 'df'
> > > > it did not.

Indeed - the partition has been resized, but the filesystem has not - 
there's just a bunch on unused slack space at the end of the partition 
after the ext3 fs finishes.

Dylan

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