On Sun May 25 13:17:26 BST 2008, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2008 at 05:59:51PM -0700, Ben2K wrote: > > I recently swapped out my laptop harddrive for a larger 160GB model. I first > > created the partitions I wanted, significantly expanding /home and > > /usr/local. Then I copied everything with Clonezilla. After some boot > > difficulties, I got everything running. > > > > The problem is that the /home and /usr/local partitions (/dev/sda8 and > > /dev/sda9) are sized at 40GB and 45GB. respectively. Both are ext3. This > > info is correctly reported by fdisk, gparted, and even Nautilus. But when I > > do a df, or try to use the space, df reports that both partitions have been > > truncated to 9.9GB! > > > > /dev/sda8 10365264 8994932 843804 92% /home > > /dev/sda9 10365264 9082556 756180 93% /usr/local > > Partition size and filesystem size don't necessarily have to be the > same. I suspect that Clonezilla copied your existing filesystems > bit-by-bit from your old disk, and didn't resize them to match newer and > larger partition sizes. > > > BTW, I'm running kernel 2.6.24-16-generic and Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy. > > > > How do I fix this, and get access to the missing space? > > I would suggest that you make a backup (just in case), and then resize > the partitions with the resize2fs tool. According to the manual page, > it can expand the size of a mounted ext3 filesystem, so this should be > sufficient: > > sudo resize2fs /dev/sda8 > sudo resize2fs /dev/sda9 > > Hope that helps, > Marius Gedminas > Many thanks! That seemed to be exactly what I needed. Glad I listened to Derek and didn't start over. Clonezilla has a '-r' resize option that I deliberately suppressed, but I now suspect that I misunderstood its purpose. Clonezilla's documentation leaves a bit to be desired, but it is still a great utility. Thanks again.