On 12/04/2009 01:56 PM, Tom H wrote: >> I am copying a disk/partition to another disk/partition >> using dd, with the following: >> >> BEFORE: >> Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, size=97.65G, used=91.23G, unused=6.42G >> Disk2: partition#1: psize=250G, size=244.14G (newly formatted) >> >> I did a dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 >> >> AFTER: >> Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, size=97.65G, used=91.23G, unused=6.42G >> Disk2: partition#1: psize=250G, size=244.14G, used=237.72G, unused=6.42G >> >> WTF... >> >> Then I: >> 1) mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt >> 2) cd /mnt/b >> 3) df -h . >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sdb1 97G 90G 1.6G 99% /mnt/b >> 4) umount /mnt >> >> 5) mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt >> 6) cd /mnt >> 7) df -h . >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda1 97G 90G 1.6G 99% /mnt/b >> 8) Umount /mnt >> >> Hmm... this is not what I expected... I had assumed that somehow >> the free disk space would somehow be reclaimed... >> >> What am I doing wrong here and how do I get around this? >> > You have to resize Disk2 to 250Gb with resize2fs or parted. > Ok, I used gparted to shrink the size of the partition and grow the partition again. That did the trick. I wonder if it would have been easier to just: resize2fs /dev/sdb1 and be done with it? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
