how to resize/grow an existing partition

[Victor Sira]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Kevin Kempter <kevin at kevinkempterllc.com>
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 7, 2008 5:37:13 AM
> Subject: how to resize/grow an existing partition
> 
> 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?

I've done something like in the past when having the same situation although not on FC7, but it should work:

1) Backup
2) e2fsck before increasing the size to make sure.
3) Use fdisk to remove the existing partition and create a new one with the new size. Make sure you start at the same spot.
4)sfdisk -R re-read the partition table
5)e2fsck again.
6)ext2online ( or resize2fs may work offline )

Hope that helps.

--Victor

 
> Thanks in advance
> 
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