From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200005240551.HAA00630@piglet.grunz.lu> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 07:51:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Michel Lanners Reply-To: mlan@cpu.lu Subject: Re: partition size funkiness To: ericpeden@homemail.com cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi there, On 23 May, this message from Eric Peden echoed through cyberspace: > I've begun to suspect that my problems are due to the method I used to > "re-partition" the drive; I simply used pdisk to re-arrange the partition > map, thus doing a non-destructive repartitioning. I'm sure that is your problem right there. I bet 1.4 gig was the size of your root partition before extending the partition? > The cause is different, and of course no solution is offered, but the > symptoms are the same. Is partition information stored somewhere other than > the partition map? Is df just reading this information incorrectly, or is > the extra space on /dev/sda7 truly unusable? Is there some low-level > information I could modify to properly reflect the size of root? Partition information is only stored in the partition map, however no partition is usable as-is. You need to create a filesystem on a partition before it is usable to any OS (well, in general at least ;-). Your problem is that you didn't recreate the filesystem when you made your partition larger. It worked for you (sortof...) only because the starting block of your partition: > 7: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 / 5529600 @ 2098358 ( 2.6G) this number: ^^^^^^^ stayed at the same place as one of your previous partitions. The only solution is to back up your data again, and re-create the filesystem on all affected partitions: mke2fs /dev/sda7 (your new root partition) If you moved your swap partition as well, you might want to do a: mkswap /dev/sda8 but I've run successfully without that part.... It can't hurt, though. Hope this helps, and good luck Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email mlan@cpu.lu | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/