On (22/01/04 14:31), Paul Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:05:01 +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > > 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. Brilliant! ;) Thanks Paul for a great explanation. I used rsync -opg to copy the /usr files across <thinks> must read man pages prior to significant tasks</thinks>
Tomorrow, I will dutifully read ext2resize man page and fix it. Reading the parted user manual suggests that "parted resize" could also be used to fix it? Thanks again ;) I presume you're across the pond - do you get to vote? Regards Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]