Re: partitions of external esata drives not in /dev

2014-10-05 Thread jd1008
On 10/05/2014 11:53 AM, jd1008 wrote: A new problem has cropped up with enumerating all of a disk's eternal partitions in /dev. This has not been a problem since may or june of this year. It just cropped up when I booted this morning. One external drive (sdb) is connected to the laptop via the

Re: Partitions

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 13, 2014, at 2:29 PM, Doug wrote: > On 03/13/2014 12:20 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: >> Okay, found it. Now, it says that it is at 20006 megabytes, which I am >> assuming is it's size. But, I can't move the number upwards to give it >> more room. I went to the correct partition, clicked resi

Re: Partitions

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 13, 2014, at 11:49 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > Am 13.03.2014 17:20, schrieb Hunter Jozwiak: >> Okay, found it. Now, it says that it is at 20006 megabytes, which I am >> assuming is it's size. But, I can't move the number upwards to give it >> more room. I went to the correct partitio

Re: Partitions

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 13, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 12:20 -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: >> Okay, found it. Now, it says that it is at 20006 megabytes, which I am >> assuming is it's size. But, I can't move the number upwards to give it >> more room. I went to the corr

Re: Partitions

2014-03-13 Thread Doug
On 03/13/2014 12:20 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: Okay, found it. Now, it says that it is at 20006 megabytes, which I am assuming is it's size. But, I can't move the number upwards to give it more room. I went to the correct partition, clicked resize/move, and that's where I found the current size. I

Re: Partitions

2014-03-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > LVM isn't a filesystem, Pat, it's a storage container that holds a > filesystem. To grow a filesystem on an LVM, you grow the LVM first (if > it needs more space), then grow the filesystem on it. Yes, I was aware of a certain lack of precisio

Re: Partitions

2014-03-13 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 13.03.2014 17:20, schrieb Hunter Jozwiak: Okay, found it. Now, it says that it is at 20006 megabytes, which I am assuming is it's size. But, I can't move the number upwards to give it more room. I went to the correct partition, clicked resize/move, and that's where I found the current size. Is

Re: Partitions

2014-03-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/13/2014 10:26 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan issued this missive: On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 12:20 -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: Okay, found it. Now, it says that it is at 20006 megabytes, which I am assuming is it's size. But, I can't move the number upwards to give it more room. I went to the correct

Re: Partitions

2014-03-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 12:20 -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > Okay, found it. Now, it says that it is at 20006 megabytes, which I am > assuming is it's size. But, I can't move the number upwards to give it > more room. I went to the correct partition, clicked resize/move, and > that's where I found th

Re: Partitions

2014-03-13 Thread Liam Proven
On 13 March 2014 16:20, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > Is it because I am booted in to > Fedora that I can't modify the size? Probably, yes. It is safest to use a LiveCD or Live USB stick to do partition manipulation. -- Liam Proven * Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.

Re: Partitions

2014-03-13 Thread Hunter Jozwiak
Okay, found it. Now, it says that it is at 20006 megabytes, which I am assuming is it's size. But, I can't move the number upwards to give it more room. I went to the correct partition, clicked resize/move, and that's where I found the current size. Is it because I am booted in to Fedora that I can

Re: Partitions

2014-03-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 11:27 -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > When I installed my Fedooa, I had a partion for /, /home, swap, and a > boot. Now, I need to grow my / partition, but when I go to Gparted, I > see /sda4. When I expand that, I have /sda5 and 6. But they don't have > no labels, so it is har