Resizing Partitions

[Grathol]

Hey,
After failing to emerge openoffice due to lack of disk space on my laptop, I decided I needed to rearrange my partitions and allocate more space to Gentoo. This is how it was set up before:

/dev/hda1 - 100MB, /boot
/dev/hda2 - 5GB, /
/dev/hda3 - 8GB, Win2000
/dev/hda5 - 2GB, /var
/dev/hda6 - 2GB, /home
/dev/hda7 - 330 MB, swap

I resized them using partition magic, so the following are the updated sizes:

/dev/hda2 - 7.5GB, /
/dev/hda3 - 4GB, Win2000
/dev/hda5 - 3.5GB, /var

However, when I boot, df -h still shows them as their old sizes. Windows recognizes its new, smaller size, but the Gentoo install doesn't. I poked through fstab but don't see anything about this. Any ideas? Thanks!

[fp2099]

This subject has been discussed many times... a quick search would have pointed to several similar themes.
Partition size isn't the same has filesytem size you have to resize your filesystem size using a tool created for that purpose.. resize_reiserfs for reiserfs, ext2resize for ext2 or ext3..

[Grathol]

I just found the thread at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=104303&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc


Apologies.