On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 22:18, John McQuillen wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have just moved my Mandrake 9.1 installation to a larger hard drive. I > created partitions on the new drive with larger sizes to fill the new > drive, then cloned the partitions from the old drive one at a time with > Norton Ghost. After recreating the boot loader from the rescue disk, my > system has booted and everything works A-OK. > The only problem is that although Diskdrake shows the new partitions at > the new sizes, df still reports the old sizes and free space. It appears > that the file systems have not grown to fit the new partitions. Is there > anything that I can do to fix this, or do I have to start again? > Ok, since no-one here seems to know the answer to this, I posted to another forum (SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group) and got the answer which was to use resize_reiserfs (in my case) to resize the file system to the partition size.
I had to boot to the rescue disk after copying resize_reiserfs to a floppy, as I discovered it is not on the rescue disk :( and run resize_reiserfs /dev/hdax for each of the partitions [1,6,7,8] that required resizing. You learn something new every day! :) Cheers, John...
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