<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbt@zest.trausch.us">mbt@zest.trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Brian Pitts wrote:<br>
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> Marc Ferguson wrote:<br>
> > [root@fergatron ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb<br>
>><br>
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes<br>
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders<br>
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
>> Disk identifier: 0x0b99f72f<br>
>><br>
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
>> /dev/sdb1 1 38913 312568641 83 Linux<br>
>> [root@fergatron ~]#<br>
>><br>
>> I'm not fully comprehending these outputs. Do they indicate anything of<br>
>> significance?<br>
>><br>
><br>
> That looks like one (roughly) 320 GB partition to me. You could try to<br>
> grow the filesystem by running the following as root<br>
><br>
> umount /dev/sdb1<br>
> e2fcsk -f /dev/sdb1<br>
> resize2fs -p /dev/sdb1<br>
> mount /dev/sdb1 /media/backup<br>
<br>
</div>If the kernel is recent enough, and the filesystem is extXfs, it should be<br>
growable online.<br>
<br>
--- Mike<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Well Brian and Folks, 66GB used and 227.4 GB free. Well done. I don't understand how simply running a resize program fixed my issue. Should I have not formatted the drive via GParted? Or was there something I should have done in GParted? Thanks for a little clarification and thanks for helping me expand this drive.<div>
<br></div><div>The commands worked and I now have<br><div><br><div><div>[root@fergatron ~]# e2fsck -f /dev/sdb1</div><div>e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)</div><div>Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes</div><div>Pass 2: Checking directory structure</div>
<div>Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity</div><div>Pass 4: Checking reference counts</div><div>Pass 5: Checking group summary information</div><div>DataBackup: 89242/3842048 files (0.5% non-contiguous), 13643580/15360140 blocks</div>
<div>[root@fergatron ~]# man resize2fs</div><div>Formatting page, please wait...</div><div>[root@fergatron ~]# resize2fs -p /dev/sdb1</div><div>resize2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)</div><div>Resizing the filesystem on /dev/sdb1 to 78142160 (4k) blocks.</div>
<div>Begin pass 1 (max = 1916)</div><div>Extending the inode table XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</div><div>The filesystem on /dev/sdb1 is now 78142160 blocks long.</div><div><br></div><div>[root@fergatron ~]# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/backup</div>
<div>[root@fergatron ~]# </div><div><br></div><br>-- <br>Marc F.<br><br>"When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!"<br><br>
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