Grow a filesystem

[Karl F. Larsen]

James Michael Fultz wrote:
> * "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> [2009-09-29 17:47 -0600]:
>> I have a /dev/sda5 that has all my /home/karl things on it 
>> and it is 85% full. I was going to go over the size if I get a 
>> new system to d/l or other such things. 
>>
>> So I made /dev/sda12 twice as large and the used dd to put 
>> /dev/sda5 on /dev/sda12. It did but, it made /dev/sda12 
>> smaller, in fact the same size as /dev/sda5. 
> 
> Using dd to copy the filesystem to a new partition does only 
> that.  The filesystem is the same size as before, though there is 
> more space on the new partition for the filesystem to grow.  
> GParted (System>Administration>Partition Editor) can be used to 
> grow supported filesystems as well as resize2fs for an ext3 
> filesystem.
> 
>> I had to go back to my Live/CD and make /dev/sda12 a tiny bit 
>> smaller with the Partioner and then it shows up being much 
>> larger at last. 
>>
>> So now it shows the large size of /dev/sda12 with $df -h as 
>> twice as large as /dev/sda5 and all is well. 
>>
>> You don't care? I do. 
> 
> Looks like using the Partition Editor performed a resize on the 
> filesystem which had not been done earlier.
> 
	First it was a PARTITION SIZE! I made it 20 GB. I checked and 
it was according to fdisk 20 GB. I used dd to put the old 
/dev/sda5 at 8 GB on the new place. When dd was done I checked 
and /dev/sda5 = /dev/sda12. I got that fixed with the LiveCD 
and the partioner.

73 Karl


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