Re: df doesn't display increased available disk space

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Robert,
    When you say type 8e, it makes me think of the partition table, not
the filesystem, which would be etx2 or etx3 or XFS or Reiserfs or ....

    Now when a partition is marked as type 8e, it is an LVM partition.

    Best of luck,
        Erik.

On Fri, March 4, 2005 13:35, Robert Buick said:
> I'm using type 8e, does anyone happen to know if resize2fs is
> appropriate for this type; the man page only mentions type2.
>
>
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 21:47 +0000, Robin Green wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:35:55PM +0000, Robert Buick wrote:
>> > I'm running Fedora Core 3 with LVM2, and have added /dev/hda4
>> (13.09GB)
>> > to the VG, however this increase is not reflected if I do a df -h.
>> Have
>> > I missed something?
>> >
>> >[root@stemme mapper]# lvscan
>> > ACTIVE            '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [34.53 GB] inherit
>> >  ACTIVE            '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01' [1.94 GB] inherit
>> > [root@stemme mapper]# pvscan
>> >  PV /dev/hda2   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [23.41 GB / 32.00 MB free]
>> > PV /dev/hda4   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [13.09 GB / 0    free]
>> > Total: 2 [36.50 GB] / in use: 2 [36.50 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]
>> > [root@stemme mapper]# vgscan
>> >  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
>> >  Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
>> > [root@stemme mapper]# df -h
>> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>> >                       22G  9.0G   12G  45% /
>> > /dev/hda1              99M   22M   73M  23% /boot
>> > none                  760M     0  760M   0% /dev/shm
>
>> Yes - you need to resize the filesystem as well.
>>
>> If you are using an ext2 or ext3 filesystem you could use resize2fs. If
>> you
>> are using reiserfs, you could use resize_reiserfs. I don't know about
>> resize
>> tools for other filesystems.
>>
>> Please note that resize2fs in Fedora Core 3 is buggy, and may corrupt
>> the
>> resize inode. To get a version that works better, I recommend you
>> download and build
>> from source e2fsprogs 1.36 from
>> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.36.tar.gz
>>
>> (If you wanted to avoid using resize2fs altogether, you could of course
>> backup all your data in /, mke2fs the root filesystem, and copy all the
>> data
>> back again. But that would be much slower.)
>
>
>
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