how to resize/grow an existing partition
Mauriat M
mirandam at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 16:40:44 UTC 2008
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Kevin Kempter <kevin at kevinkempterllc.com> wrote:
> Hi List;
>
> My laptop running Fedora 7 had a 100G SATA drive. I went out yesterday and
> purchased a 320G drive.
>
> First I used dd to transfer my entire existing drive to the new drive, it
> worked perfectly - I'm typing this on my system via the new drive now.
>
> Can someone give me some guidance per resizing my existing file systems to
> take advantage of the new space. If I run resize2fs straight away I get this:
>
> # resize2fs -p /dev/sda5 25G
> resize2fs 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
> The containing partition (or device) is only 3711007 (4k) blocks.
> You requested a new size of 6553600 blocks.
>
> I suspect I need to do something with fdisk first?
>
Try parted, or gparted for a gui.
# yum install gparted
-Mauriat
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