jbyers:<br>> Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.<br>><br>> does this last tell us anything useful?<br>> perhaps better to just reformat sda1?<br>-------<br> aldo foot:<br>That's informative. I would do one of two things:<br>
(a) reformat the partition and create a new filesystem,<br> or <br> (b) use GParted to grow the filesystem to the full extent of the partition.<br><br>Note that a partition can be 200GB, but there could be a small filesystem that<br>
does not occupy the entire partition... such is your case.<br>--------<br>jbyers:<br><br>ok, i used gparted from a systemrescuecd<br>it took me a while to see how to grow the fs<br>but it worked<br><br>GParted 0.4.1<br>
<br>Libparted 1.8.8<br>Check and repair file system (ext3) on /dev/sda1 00:00:31 ( SUCCESS )<br> <br>calibrate /dev/sda1 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )<br> <br>path: /dev/sda1<br>start: 63<br>end: 42989939<br>
size: 42989877 (20.50 GiB)<br>check file system on /dev/sda1 for errors and (if possible) fix them 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )<br> <br>e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sda1<br> <br>Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes<br>
Pass 2: Checking directory structure<br>Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity<br>Pass 4: Checking reference counts<br>Pass 5: Checking group summary information<br><br>11 inodes used (0.02%)<br>0 non-contiguous inodes (0.0%)<br>
# of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0<br>12003 blocks used (5.98%)<br>0 bad blocks<br>0 large files<br><br>0 regular files<br>2 directories<br>0 character device files<br>0 block device files<br>0 fifos<br>0 links<br>
0 symbolic links (0 fast symbolic links)<br>0 sockets<br>--------<br>2 files<br>e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)<br>grow file system to fill the partition 00:00:31 ( SUCCESS )<br> <br>resize2fs /dev/sda1<br> <br>
Resizing the filesystem on /dev/sda1 to 21494936 (1k) blocks.<br>The filesystem on /dev/sda1 is now 21494936 blocks long.<br><br>resize2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)<br><br><br>mount<br>...<br>/dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 type ext3 (rw)<br>
<br>root@sysresccd /root % df -kh<br>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br> ...<br>/dev/sda1 20G 7.0M 19G 1% /mnt/sda1<br><br>so, finally the fs size looks same as partition<br><br>--------<br>
one last comment<br>prior to doing the resize<br># /sbin/blkid<br> <br>urrrrrrrkkkk:<br>/dev/sda1: LABEL="/boot" UUID="e9ebdaea-2ae2-4a99-8eee-bf3ca8af7b8b" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" <br>
used to be LABEL="/"<br><br>further proof, if any was needed,<br>that the f10liveinstallcd tried to put in a /boot partition<br>overwriting my entire fc5 / partition<br><br>thanks to all who helped<br>Jack<br>
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