On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:30 PM, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You have extended the partition, but the file system inside still ends > at the old boundary. You will need to resize it - reiserfs can do it (I > know because I do this a couple of times a year :), so I presume that > other, lesser file systems can also do it. > thank you for the reply, actually I've heard about this solution, and tried to use resize2fs to expand my filesystem (ext3), the problem is I didn't know how to use it, what does the "new size" parameter mean? the additional size or the new complete size? and the device must be a partition rather than the whole disk, otherwise, it complains "Bad magic number in super-block", and for a partition, it complains size not match or too large. any ideas? tks fei > > :) > BillK > > > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 21:23 +0800, fei huang wrote: > > I've got a mini gentoo in vmware for coding, and the "/" becomes full, > > I used vmware-vdiskmanager and expaned the virutal disk with no > > problem, > > > > however, the VM is totally unware of the new free space, neither > > "fdisk" nor "parted", I've got no idea about this, almost all > > articles googled are > > > > about windows and partition magic which make no sense to me, any hints > > please? thanks a lot~~ > > > > > > regards > > fei > > > > > > > > > -- > William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Home in Perth! > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > >
