[Tfug] gparted problem SOLVED!!! well ... er ... ummm

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

Thanks, Jeff,

That worked perfectly!!  I now have 25 GB free.  I set up the partition as
ext3 but no problems.

Earl
On Wed, December 23, 2009 11:10 am, Jeff Breadner wrote:
> earljviolet at deserthowler.com wrote:
>> There is a problem however.  Before I did the partition enlargement I
>> had
>> 10 GB free.  After the partition enlargement I still have 10 GB free.  I
>> forced fsck.  Still only 10 GB free.  Any suggestions?
>>
>> Earl
>>
>>
> Once you extend the partition, you still have to extend the filesystem.
> Ubuntu 9.10's default filesystem is ext4, but the same commands that
> worked on ext2/3 will work on ext4 as well.
>
> Use gparted to push the partition size out to where you want it, then run:
>
> resize2fs /dev/sda1        (substitute with your actual partition, of
> course)
>
> If you don't specify a size then it will just use the partition size.
> You can do this while the filesystem is mounted.  When it's done
> running, 'df' should show you the extra space.
>
> cheers
>   Jeff
>
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