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

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On Tuesday 31 July 2007 20:50, Fernando Costa wrote:

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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

Rajko M. wrote: 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_partitio... http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions and so on. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 8/3/07, Martin Nopola wrote:

I have read the above but can't get parted to recognize hda2 .or hda3. I installed OpenSuSE 10.2 in a new box with an 80 G hard drive. The default values use the whole disk. I want to make room for more distros.

I booted with a Ubuntu disk and added hda2 and hda3 in /etc/fstab as follows:

unionfs / unionfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 0

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo tune2fs -O^has_journal /dev/hda2 tune2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo parted /dev/hda2 resize 21476 8000 Error: Partition doesn't exist. Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary. ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

What am I missing?

You are missing the "create partitions" part :) Just adding entries in fstab does not create partitions. You need first to resize the partition on which suse resides. If you use ubutu, I think the the right tool is gparted (I may be wrong). After you resize this partition, you can create new ones on the freed space. But before you resize the partition, make sure u resize the filesystem, otherwise you will corrupt it. Actually, I still do not know exactly your situation. Is it: 1. Install suse with default settings (i.e. use the whole disk) 2. run ubuntu live cd or 2. install ubuntu, letting it to resize the suse partition and make space for itself? Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:16:35 +0200 Fernando Costa wrote:

I used Partition Magic to resize the partition

As has been mentioned previously, you need to resize the file system as Partition Magic will not. The command line utility is: resize2fs. I have found that QTParted tends to work in a similar manner to Partition Magic. QTParted uses GNUParted. You can boot a Knoppix live CD and run QTParted, or you can download the GParted Live CD if partitioning is all you want. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php The YaST partitioner works, but I have found some issues with it. I prefer to run a live CD to ensure that none of the partitions are being used. One word of caution, some live CDs, such as Knoppix will use a swap partition on the HD if there is one, but you can always turn that off. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:14:34 +0200 Fernando Costa wrote:

Thanks for your reply, I used the GParted Live CD to repair the filesystem and my OS recognizes all the partition size...

Wonderful. There are some very good tools on Linux. Even the Windows professionals I know use Linux tools to to fix broken Windows servers. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9