Size Problem

[Derek Broughton]

Felipe Figueiredo wrote:

> 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.

While you're right about the partition size, I don't think parted would do
any better job.  However, Karl says he used mkfs - so it really should be
using the whole partition.
-- 
derek