On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 14:49, Douglas Stalker wrote: > > > > > I have just moved my Mandrake 9.1 installation to a larger hard > drive. > > > 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? > > The utility 'resize2fs' can resize ext2 and ext3 filesystems to take > up the entire partition without losing any data (but backup beforehand > just to make sure. :-) By default, it will grow the filesystem to > fill the partition. 'man resize2fs' will have more details. > > Knoppix includes resize2fs, which makes it easy to boot up off the CD > and resize the partitions on the hard-drive. > > If you're using reiser fs, try using the resize_reiserfs utility > instead.
That worked perfectly. I had to boot to the Mandrake rescue disk and run resize_reiserfs on each of /dev/hda1,6,7 & 8 (after copying it onto a floppy as it isn't on the rescue disk) and I am now in business with much more free space. Thanks and cheers, John... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
