Increase partitions size while there is data on it

Howard_L · #1 21-Feb-2008, 21:20

Hello,

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The last two partitions on my hard drive are:
hda7  1000 mb   e2fs  
hda8  1000 mb   vfat using as linux/msdos swap

I have used linux fdisk to change the sizes to:
hda7  1500 mb   e2fs mounted as ext3  
hda8   500 mb   vfat using as linux/msdos swap

After a reboot fdisk shows the new sizes but df shows them as they originally were.
I can't do another reboot now as I am in the middle of my nightly "working on LFS".

My question(s) are:
Will the e2fs eventually see the new size?
Is there something else I should do?
I would try another mke2fs on hda7 but wouldn't that make the date un-retrievable like dos format?

I'm almost positive I did this a couple of years ago in my RH9 install,
but I think it was a vfat partition whose size was changed, and went fine.
Anybody? . Thanks , Howard();

Howard_L · #2 24-Feb-2008, 12:44

Got it solved:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-on-it-623407/
movin on...

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Increase partitions size while there is data on it

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