Re: Not recognizing larger partition

[Armel Peel]

Hadnt heard back from you, didnt hit reply-all last time so here is my
response to the last email...
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> Was your / mounted?  Parted can't resize mounted partitions.

yea it was mounted, didnt know any better..  How would I unmount my root
partition to resize?

> It should complain, but apparantly didn't, and tried to anyway.
> This worries me... (why it didn't warn you).  Could you give the
> output of "cat /proc/partitions"

address@hidden ~]$ cat /proc/partitions         
major minor  #blocks  name     rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect
wuse running use aveq

   3     0   30015216 hda 210 0 242 190 0 0 0 0 0 190 190
   3     1    3172806 hda1 23 0 35 30 0 0 0 0 0 30 30
   3     2          1 hda2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
   3     5    3799341 hda5 8 0 16 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 20
   3     6   23037178 hda6 179 0 191 140 0 0 0 0 0 140 140
   3    64   20010312 hdb 7199 17963 201264 91850 4008 8029 96720 454730
0 84970 546580
   3    65   10241406 hdb1 7190 17963 201234 91710 4008 8029 96720
454730 0 84830 546440
   3    66          1 hdb2 1 0 2 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 20
   3    69     514048 hdb5 2 0 16 40 0 0 0 0 0 40 40
   3    70    9253408 hdb6 5 0 10 50 0 0 0 0 0 50 50
  22     0     669420 hdc 1 0 4 3140 0 0 0 0 -13 5729390 11759385





> and "cat /proc/mounts"?  
address@hidden ~]$ cat /proc/mounts
/dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win9x vfat rw 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/games vfat rw 0 0
//bfg/bfgstuff /mnt/smbmount/bfg/stuff smbfs rw 0 0
//bfg/bfggames /mnt/smbmount/bfg/games smbfs rw 0 0

> You REALLY want to run a thorough fsck on /dev/hdb1, ASAP.

I tried, but it said it couldnt run fsck on a mounted partition, so this
falls back to the first question  :)

Thx for all your help so far btw...