On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:33:03 -0500 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 January 2006 12:00 pm, Pascal Huisman wrote: > > I made a partition on a new disk, sda1 with size of approx. 189 Gig. > > > > But when I use df the size reported back, is 20 GB. > > > > What I did which led to this is: > > With partimage I copied a image from a different hdd (size 20GB) to a > > bigger disk with a partition size of 189 GB. > > > > After bootup it complained a bit and I was able to fix it with fsck > > manually. > > Everything seems to be alright, but I can't get past the 20 GB barrier > > somehow. > > > > How can I fix this next problem? can't you use a partition tool to resize the partition? you can only see 20GB because you copied an IMAGE of a 20GB partition, so that's what you get. A > > > > Thx. > > > > Pascal. > > I hope you get a more complete answer, but with PartImage, you also have to > do > something regarding superblocks or something similar, otherwise the OS sees > only the copied over part. > > The long way, if you have an extra drive, is to copy the files over to > another > drive, reformat the big one, and copy back. > > I know there is some other fix because I asked about the same problem. If I > remember, PartImage has a mailing list and if you search the archives, you > can find the answer someone gave me. I would think a search for PartImage > and terms like size or "partition size" would provide an answer. It may have > a lot of false hits, but I remember the problem being specifically related to > PartImage. > > Hal > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
