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hard drive size problem

I had debian on a 10gb hard drive. I swapped it for a 20gb hard drive, and used ghost4linux to restore it. But I guess I need to do something to let debian know theres more space?

Code:

orangegum:~# df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/hda1            8.8G  3.3G  5.1G  40% /

tmpfs                252M    0  252M  0% /lib/init/rw

tmpfs                252M    0  252M  0% /dev/shm

Code:

orangegum:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda



Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/hda1  *          1        2330    18715693+  83  Linux

/dev/hda2            2331        2434      835380    5  Extended

/dev/hda5            2331        2434      835348+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Hmmm...did you ghost a partition, or the whole drive?

I had thought that ghosting a 10GB partition (or disk) would only fill 10GB on the target drive, but I do not know how ghost4linux works.

Maybe you can boot up from a live CD and use dd to just ghost the mbr and the partition

Quote:

Originally Posted by pixellany

Hmmm...did you ghost a partition, or the whole drive?

only hda1 .

Then how did the extended and swap partitions get there??

reinstalled debian first.