Size Problem

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On Wednesday 11 June 2008 21:31:59 Karl Larsen wrote:
>     I have a real problem with /dev/sda5. I put the /karl directories on
> it and got a 100% full warning. But for gods sake I had doubled the size
> with fdisk and saved it. Here is what df says:
> /dev/sda5              8657308   8216216      1316 100% /mnt
>
> But here is what I did with fdisk and mkfs.ext3 earlier today:
>
> /dev/sda5            2193        4625    19543041   83  Linux
>
> according to fdisk.
>
> Which of these is correct?
>

Both of them. 

One is reporting the partition size, and the other is reporting the filesystem 
size. Fdisk doesn't mess with filesystems, which is why it's not recommended 
for those who don't know exactly what they're doing. You could avoid this by 
using parted, or something higher level like that.

You need to resize the filesystem to match the new partition size.
 man resize2fs is your friend.

regards
FF