[SOLVED] Re: Disk problem: After resize, Gparted shows 8.46 Gb used but actual usage only 2.3 Gb

[Chanchao]

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 10:13 +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> I have a ReiserFS /home partition that used to be 9 or so Gb but as I
> use only 2.3 Gb of it I wanted to resize it to make it smaller, say 3.5
> Gb or so, then move it so I can extend my almost full Fat32 Windows
> documents partition. 
> 
> While resizing though, it seems Gparted crashed.  It just disappeared,
> the whole window. 
> 
> Since then, the partition still shows to be the same size, but almost
> full! 8.46 Gb but I only use the same 2.3 Gb.. (du -h /home confirms
> this)

Solved this by unmounting the partition and running reiserfsck with the
--rebuild-sb option, followed by a regular check.

Turns out the gparted version in Ubuntu cannot move ReiserFS partitions,
and is apparently shaky when resizing.

So I downloaded the GParted Live CD, booted it and used to to resize and
move everything. Everything is fine now!

Cheers,
Chanchao