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Re: resizing ext3.
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:47:51PM +0200, Diego G. Iastrubni wrote:
> I am using ext3 and when I type df it shows:
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda7 15522 2616 12105 18% /boot
> none 63380 0 63380 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda1 1226516 920660 305856 76% /mnt/windows
> /dev/hdb1 530132 469324 60808 89% /mnt/remove
> /dev/hda5 2020180 1892432 127748 94% /mnt/dgi
> /dev/hda6 1429753 1244291 185462 88% /mnt/ntfs
>
> how do I know the free size of an ext3 fs?
1. Either this isn't the entire output or you have some problem.
Where is your "/" ?
2. What do you mean by "free size"?
3. Doing such low-level things, you might want to use dumpe2fs(8), as
it's more informative than plain df.
>
> - diego
>
> On 2001 December 29 á,Saturday 21:52, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > > My ext3 drive ran out of space.
> > > How can i resize the partition?
> > > It looks something like this:
> > > fat32
> > > free space (300mb)
> > > ext3.
> > > swap.
> > >
> > > i tried parted(version 1.4.21) from a bootdisk like this:
> > > parted /dev/hdc
> > > resize ext3_minor start_of_free_space end_of_previous_ext3(no need
> > > changing).
> > >
> > > but i pressed enter and a second later nothing happened and it returned
> > > to prompt. wrote quit
> > > rebooted.
> > > no change.
> > > what to do?
> >
> > You can backup the ext3 partition, repartition, reformat and copy the
> > files from the backup.
> > Not sure if this will not harm your fat32 partition.
> > You might be interested in the Hard-Disk-Upgrade mini HOWTO.
> > Another option is to format the free space and move /, /var, /tmp and
> > maybe more.
> >
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