Hi,
When I originally installed PCLinuxOS 2007 Test 2 back in March (I think), I only reserved 10 GB for the system partition, thinking that would be quite sufficient. However, because pclos is such a great OS I kept on using it and installing more stuff, so my partition became quite full. I then resized the ext2 partition using gparted from a puppy linux livecd. Before the resizing operation gparted reported only 40 MB free. After the resizing (increased the partition size to 25 GB)gparted still reported 40 MB free, instead of the 15 GB I reported. I ran e2fsck both before and after. Does anyone know how I can make the system know enough space is available? Right now I often get messages like "You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/" when, for example, installing a new program using apt-get. However, when counting file sizes using konqueror it appears only 10 GB of space is occupied. And I know the filesystem was successfully resized. Does anyone know a way out of this mess?

What you are saying is self contradictory. You say that you know the file system was successfully resized. Yet konqueror and various error messages say otherwise. You can use the df command as yet another check on whether the filesystem was resized or not.

There have been various bugs in gparted relating to resizing filesystems. If it turns out that gparted told you that it successfully resized the filesystem but df, konqueror, etc. say otherwise then I suggest that you try to resize again, except this time try using the resize2fs command.


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Steve Stites

Here is a link to gparted documentation 'How to resize a partition'. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry...e/resizing.htm. You may want to verify your procedure by reading this document.

THe problem being that gparted USED resize2fs (I studied the logs, and no, I didn't save them). Also, gparted, konqueror and what else are telling me the partition actually is 25 GB in size. So at least some part of the resizing process worked. Which means (since it's filled up all the available space now) that if I want to resize again I'll have to decrease the size of the partition such as it's being detected. Which means for all I know I may be losing data or the app may say it's not possible at all

That's exactly how I did it.

THis may clarify the situation:
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/8089/spacert7.png

Looks like the partition resizing worked, but not the filesystem resizing.
Resize2fs run against that fs (unmounted) should expand it to fill the partition. Try it from a terminal (i.e. CLI) from a liveCD.

Thanks, that seems to have done the trick :-)