| Doug Stewart on 31 Jan 2013 17:25:07 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Using resize2fs |
You'll need to have a larger device to resize the FS onto. Please say you're using LVM...! -- Doug Stewart On Jan 31, 2013, at 8:15 PM, "Eric H. Johnson" <ejohnson@camalytics.com> wrote: > > I burned a pre-built image of debian to an SD. The image size is 4GB and results in two partitions, the first is 17MB, the second is the remainder of 4GB. > > The instructions then say that if it is burned to a different size SD to use resize2fs to resize it, but does not bother to give an example. The SD I am using is 16GB. > > I have tried this both when mounted to another Linux computer and after booting to the SD. In both cases it basically says "nothing to do". If I give it a size of 15G it says only so many blocks are available and I asked for a whole lot more. > > How do I expand the 3.9GB partition to use the remainder of the SD without losing data? > > Thanks, > Eric > > Sent from my ASUS Pad > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug