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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] vmware virtual disk expanded but invisible in VM
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:30:18
Message-Id: 1207056605.17802.12.camel@rattus
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OT] vmware virtual disk expanded but invisible in VM by fei huang
1 You have extended the partition, but the file system inside still ends
2 at the old boundary. You will need to resize it - reiserfs can do it (I
3 know because I do this a couple of times a year :), so I presume that
4 other, lesser file systems can also do it.
5
6 :)
7 BillK
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10 On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 21:23 +0800, fei huang wrote:
11 > I've got a mini gentoo in vmware for coding, and the "/" becomes full,
12 > I used vmware-vdiskmanager and expaned the virutal disk with no
13 > problem,
14 >
15 > however, the VM is totally unware of the new free space, neither
16 > "fdisk" nor "parted", I've got no idea about this, almost all
17 > articles googled are
18 >
19 > about windows and partition magic which make no sense to me, any hints
20 > please? thanks a lot~~
21 >
22 >
23 > regards
24 > fei
25 >
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 --
30 William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
31 Home in Perth!
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