okay so after backing everything up for 4 hours I did what you said: The partition is indeed bigger, but not was large as I had expected. It says I only have about 36GB free. Here is a df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 38769320 32828 36782588 1% /home/media -ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] resizing harddrive > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:52:48PM -0800, ryan wrote: > > this but the drive is a 40GB slave that I'm using to > > store mpegs and such. All those commands worked and here is the output. > > Very good... the output explained what's happening. > > It turns out that Linux has no problem accessing all of the > drive. > > ## Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders > ## Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > ## > ## Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > ## /dev/hdb1 1 4111 33021576 83 Linux > > The problem is the partition that was made didn't use all of the > 4865 cylinders that are available. It only used the first 4111. > > If you can move all of your important data off the drive... > then umount the partition and do the following with a Linux fdisk > command: > > fdisk /dev/hdb > = > d > 1 > n > p > 1 > > > w > = > > which will > d = Delete, 1 = partition 1. > n = New, p = Primary partition, 1 = partition 1. > return = start at the first cylinder, return = end at the last cylinder, > w = write the partition. > > once that is done: > === > mke2fs -j -b 4096 -i 16384 /dev/hdb1 > === > > Should make a new ext3 filesystem on that partition. with blocksize > 4096 bytes per block, and a few fewer inodes since you are storing large > files on it. > > Then mount your partition again... it should be bigger. > > Run a "df" before and after those steps... if the partition isn't bigger > afterwards let me know and send the df output. > > If you can't move your files off the drive (not enough space), then > back them up somewhere, tell me what filesystem type you have on the > partition, and I'll suggest a way to resize the filesystem without recreation. > > Good Luck, > Mike > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
