ReiserFS Incorrect Size.... [solved]

hozt · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 10

I have had my laptop running gentoo for several months now and solved most my problems on my own, but this one has me puzzled. When I installed gentoo I installed it on a 20gb hd. Once I confirmed everything was working I put a 40gb hd into my laptop and with the live disk setup my partitions as follows:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 5 37768+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 6 6 7560 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 7 5168 39024720 83 Linux

After this I connected the 20gb and rsync'd the partitions over to the new drive. When I booted all looked good, except the hd still shows only 20gb.

Thanks if anyone can help!

BradN · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject:

Did you copy the partition itself, or format a new filesystem and copy the files into it?

You're using df to see the filesystem size, right?

hozt · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 10

I created the partitions and formatted the 40gb following the instructions in the handbook using the live cd. It has been several months, but I think I then rsync'd things over to the new drive with rsync -avv src_part dest_part. There is a chance I may have used dd to copy the data.

df is showing only 20gb:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 19489064 19281256 207808 99% /

troymc · Guru Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 553

hozt · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 10

Thanks!

This indeed did the trick:
resize_reiserfs /dev/hda3

What great service thanks for the help!