----- Original Message ---- > From: Kevin Kempter <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, March 7, 2008 5:37:13 AM > Subject: how to resize/grow an existing partition > > Hi List; > > My laptop running Fedora 7 had a 100G SATA drive. I went out yesterday and > purchased a 320G drive. > > First I used dd to transfer my entire existing drive to the new drive, it > worked perfectly - I'm typing this on my system via the new drive now. > > Can someone give me some guidance per resizing my existing file systems to > take advantage of the new space. If I run resize2fs straight away I get this: > > # resize2fs -p /dev/sda5 25G > resize2fs 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007) > The containing partition (or device) is only 3711007 (4k) blocks. > You requested a new size of 6553600 blocks. > > I suspect I need to do something with fdisk first? I've done something like in the past when having the same situation although not on FC7, but it should work: 1) Backup 2) e2fsck before increasing the size to make sure. 3) Use fdisk to remove the existing partition and create a new one with the new size. Make sure you start at the same spot. 4)sfdisk -R re-read the partition table 5)e2fsck again. 6)ext2online ( or resize2fs may work offline ) Hope that helps. --Victor > Thanks in advance > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
