ext2 resize problem

[Phil Williams]

Hi,
I have just seen a problem similar to that reported by wen shaohua (on 06 Jun
2002 10:38:32 +0800).

Here is the ouput of the command 'parted /dev/hda print':

        Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-58644.140 megabytes
        Disk label type: msdos
        Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
        1          0.031      8.367  primary   ext2        boot
        4          8.367  21000.164  extended              lba
        5          8.398   4104.351  logical   ext2        
        6       4104.382  20500.101  logical   ext2        
        7      20500.132  20756.039  logical   linux-swap  
        3      21000.164  36000.070  primary   ext2        
        2      49999.852  53000.226  primary   ext2    

Using the Parted boot and root (1.6.2) disks (so that no /dev/hda filesystems
were mounted), I created /dev/hda5 using

        mkpartfs logical ext2 8.367 4104.367

and then copied /dev/hda2 using

        cp 2 5

So the /dev/hda5 filesystem should be 4GB, but 'df -m' reports:

        Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
        /dev/hda5                 2952      1282      1490  47% /
        /dev/hda1                    8         3         5  35% /boot
        /dev/hda6                16137      7222      8095  48% /home

I have since tried using the resize command to enlarge the filesystem, but that
had no effect.  Do you have any suggestions?  Am I doing something wrong?

Also, when I followed the suggestion of running lilo using

        mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/linux
        chroot /mnt/linux lilo -v
        umount /dev/hda2

I got the following error message from lilo:

        LILO version 22.2, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
        Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2001 John Coffman
        Released 05-Feb-2002 and compiled at 20:57:26 on Apr 13 2002.
        MAX_IMAGES = 27

        Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
        Merging with /boot/boot.b
        Fatal: open /boot/boot.b: No such file or directory

On my system, /boot/boot.b is a symbolic link to the regular file  boot-menu.b
Maybe this is a problem with lilo?  Anyway, I used a Linux boot disk to boot
and then ran lilo with no problems.

Phil.

p.s. Parted is an excellent tool.  Thanks for all of your work on it!