Problem with partition resizing

[Jeff Vian]

Alexandre Strube wrote:

>Hello list,
>
>yesterday I rebooted my machine to change video memory stuff on Bios
>Setup, and used the downtime to remove a old Freebsd partition, and
>resize the fedora one.
>
>But... (there's always a but) things went wrong. PartitionMagic just
>stopped in the midlle. I rebooted.
>
>After screwing up my grub, I saw it has destroyed my swap, just fixed
>also.
>
>Oh yes, no data loss!
>
>But one thing remains:
>If I fdisk /dev/hda, what I see is
>/dev/hda1   *         1        25    200781   83  Linux
>/dev/hda2            26      4804  38387317+  83  Linux
>/dev/hda3          4805      4870    530145   82  Linux swap
>
>Indicating that the partition resizing was sucessful.
>BUT, it I use "df", this is said to me:
>
>[root at casa surak]# df
>Filesystem           1K-blocos      Usad Dispon.   Uso% Montado em
>/dev/hda2             32756276  27006320   4086024  87% /
>/dev/hda1               194443      6338    178066   4% /boot
>none                    176388         0    176388   0% /dev/shm
>
>Indicating that there was no complete resizing. How can I correct this??
>  
>
Partition resizing does not automatically format the added space.
df reads information from the file system, fdisk reads from the partion 
table.
This is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

To use the added space you will need to format it.

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