Re: SATA Hard drive problem

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> writes:

> If you boot up with a rescue disk and use resize2fs on the block device
> (assuming an ext2/ext3 filesystem) that should make the filesystem the same
> size as the block device.  You can't do it on the running system, since ext3
> (still) doesn't have a widely available online resize capability.
>
> - Matt

If the FS is prepared for it (and recent mke2fs does it automatically
now) you can online resize to some degree.

MfG
        Goswin