On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:05:01 +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > Hi List > > I've just reorganised the partitions on a second (Seagate) drive in > a dual booting Dell Dimension XPS T500 to give more room to /usr > (to upgrade from woody to sid). > > The partitions I messed with were /home, /usr and two swap. > > /home was 35 Gb and /usr 1Gb > > Using parted I deleted home and created a new 5GB /usr partition and > 30Gb /home. Once I'd amended fstab and copied the /usr file across, > I deleted the old /usr and one swap partition to create a new bigger > swap partition and increased the remaining swap partition. All worked > fine and I've subsequently upgraded to sid and everything is back as > it should be. > > However, df -h gives (showing /usr as 1Gb): > > /dev/hdb2 92M 41M 47M 47% / > /dev/hdb9 958M 564M 346M 63% /usr > /dev/hdb6 958M 147M 763M 17% /var > /dev/hdb7 958M 80K 909M 1% /tmp > /dev/hdb10 29G 32M 28G 1% /home > tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm > > whereas parted shows /usr (9) as about 5Gb: > > 2 0.031 94.130 primary ext2 > 1 94.131 76316.594 extended lba > 5 94.162 651.071 logical linux-swap > 11 651.103 1427.651 logical linux-swap > 6 1427.682 2400.336 logical ext2 > 7 2400.368 3373.022 logical ext2 > 9 3373.053 8424.711 logical ext2 > 10 8424.743 38421.079 logical ext2 > 8 38421.110 76316.594 logical fat32 > > and cfdisk also shows 5GB: > > hdb2 Primary Linux ext2 98.71 > hdb5 Logical Linux swap 584.00 > hdb11 Logical Linux swap 814.31 > hdb6 Logical Linux ext2 1019.94 > hdb7 Logical Linux ext2 1019.94 > hdb9 Logical Linux ext2 5297.09 > hdb10 Logical Linux ext2 31453.48 > hdb8 Logical W95 FAT32 39736.33 > > Any ideas? >
fsdisk and parted are showing the partiton size, whereas df is showing the *filesystem* size. You don't say how you "copied the /usr file across", but what you should have done is: Use mke2fs to create the filesystem on /dev/hdb9, e.g.: mke2fs /dev/hdb9 Then you should have mounted the new filesystem, used cp to copy the current /usr to it, then changed /etc/fstab to reflect the new /usr and rebooted, or umounted the old /usr and mounted the new one, e.g.: mkdir /tmp/usr (or /mnt/usr if you prefer) mount /dev/hdb9 /tmp/usr cp -ax /usr /tmp umount /tmp/usr umount /usr mount /dev/hdb9 /usr <change the /etc/fstab also> It seems that you probably didn't do that, and somehow copied the old filesystem as a whole onto the new partition (keeping the old filesystem's size and wasting all the rest of the partition). Check out ext2resize man page to fix. -- ....................paul It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer. -- Sun System & Network Admin manual -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]