Re: partimage partition size

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
>
> I created a 20GB partition:
>
> Model: SAMSUNG HD502HJ (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
>
> Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
>  1      32.3kB  20.0GB  20.0GB  primary  ext2
>  2      20.0GB  40.0GB  20.0GB  primary  ext2
>
> Then I restored with partimage a partition to /dev/sdb2 that was originally
> 13GB.
>
> Now df shows that /dev/sdb2 is only 13GB:
>
> debian:/var/cache/apt/archives# df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb2             13456580   7654296   5118720  60% /
> tmpfs                  1033084         0   1033084   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev                     10240       824      9416   9% /dev
> tmpfs                  1033084         0   1033084   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sdb1             19228276   3808488  14443040  21% /sdb1
>
> How do I get that pack to 20GB?

I'm not familiar with partimage but I suspect that you have to resize
the filesystem with "resize2fs -p /dev/sdb2" - preferably with sdb2
unmounted (my preference!) but it's not necessary for resizing up.