Resized ext3 partition, but filesystem remains the same SOLVED!

[Dell Sanders]

in case anyone has the same problem, I will explain
how I solved it -


Boot the Debian sarge installation / rescue disk
When the disk drivers are loaded
ALT-F2 to start a root console
create /mnt
mount -t ext2 /dev/discs/disc0/partx /mnt
cd /mnt/sbin
cp parted /sbin
cd /mnt/lib
cp -i * /lib
Answer N to all overwrites
umount /mnt
parted (it should guess disc0)
(parted) resize 3 4690.854 9193.447



 --- Dell Sanders <address@hidden> wrote: 
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:13:36 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Dell Sanders <address@hidden>
> Subject: Resized ext3 partition, but filesystem
> remains the same
> To: address@hidden
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Last night, I tried to resize my 2.5 GB ext3 linux
> root partition to include an extra 2 GB of
> unpartitioned disk space directly after /dev/hda3.
> Unfortunately, I didn't RTFM properly and ran parted
> while /dev/hda3 was mounted as root. I issued the
> following commands - 
> 
>
=======================================================
> (parted) resize 3 4690.854 9193.447
> 
> (parted) print
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-19077.187
> megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem 
> Flags
> 1          0.031   4690.854  primary   ntfs       
> boot
> 3       4690.854   9193.447  primary   ext3        
> 2       9193.447  19077.187  extended             
> lba
> 5       9193.478  10001.403  logical   linux-swap  
> 6      10001.435  16206.196  logical   ntfs        
> 7      16206.227  19077.187  logical   fat32       
>
=======================================================
> 
> With fdisk, I see -
> 
>
=======================================================
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2432 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  
> Id
>  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1         598     4803403+  
> 7
>  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2            1173        2432    10120950   
> f
>  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda3             599        1172     4610655  
> 83
>  Linux
> /dev/hda5            1173        1275      827316  
> 82
>  Linux swap
> /dev/hda6            1276        2066     6353676   
> 7
>  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda7            2067        2432     2939863+  
> b
>  W95 FAT32
> 
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
=======================================================
> 
> df -h shows me the following -
>
=======================================================
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted
> on
> /dev/hda3             2.5G  2.0G  356M  85% /
> tmpfs                 189M     0  189M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev                  2.5G  2.0G  356M  85% /.dev
> none                  5.0M  524K  4.5M  11% /dev
> /dev/fd0              1.4M   51K  1.2M   5%
> /media/floppy0
> /dev/hda7             2.8G  1.4G  1.5G  50%
> /mnt/fat32
>
=======================================================
> 
> It seems to me that the partition /dev/hda3 has been
> resized to 4.5 GB, but the filesystem remains
> restricted to 2.0 GB. Apart from that, the system
> runs
> fine.
> 
> How can I grow my ext3 filesystem to fit the entire
> /dev/hda3?
> 
> Other info :
> OS: Linux 2.6.8 (Debian Sarge)
> parted -v : GNU Parted 1.6.11 with HFS shrink patch
> 12.5
> 
> -Slath
> 
> 
>       
>       
>               
>
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