On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Kevin Kempter <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > Try parted, or gparted for a gui. # yum install gparted -Mauriat
