Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.  Here is my output of fdisk:
> > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > 
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1               1           4       32098+  de  Dell Utility
> > /dev/hda2               5        9516    76405140   83  Linux
> > /dev/hda3            9517        9726     1686825   82  Linux swap
> > 
> > And here is what df says:
> > 
> > Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda2             17362216  13564696   2915552  83% /
> > tmpfs                   254048         8    254040   1% /dev/shm
> > 
> > The df command is only seeing 18 gigs instead of 73 gigs!  So is this a df 
> > poblem or did the resize not work?
> > 
> 
> I read those numbers as 1 block = 0.5K, so the partition is 38202570K or
> about 36GB.

Agh, I shouldn't do math before I've had my coffee. 1 block is 1K so
you're right, about 73GB.

> 
> Did you resize the file system or just the partition? Perhaps you should
> try
> 
> resize_reiserfs /dev/hda2
> 
> I assume you already have a full backup of your data, messing with
> partitions can be dangerous stuff
> 
>