Hi

I'm having some problems with paritioning my primary hard disk, it's a little difficult to explain what's going on so I'll break it down, sorry if this makes the tone of the message a bit bland:

I have a 9 GB scsi HD which I have partitioned up to put RH9 on.

Among the various partitions I made to do this I also made a 5gb ext3 partition that I plan to store a load of data on.

This was the last partition I made during install and for some reason I didn't notice that it didn't fill up the rest of the available space, only 100mb of the 5gbs of space is used. I only noticed it when I tried to copy the data accross.

I used fdisk to delete the 100mb partition and create a new one that took up the whole 5gb and formatted it to ext3. Only problem is that when I now check the size in RH it's still 100mb, but according to fdisk it takes up the whole space... hmmmmm

I had one message that said something about the kernel still using the old partition table. How do I get it to update to the new table? Sorry if this is a basic problem...

~James~

Just a swag but if you didn't reboot the PC after creating the partition and before formating then the old partition table might of been used.

I'm not sure if reformating will fix the problem or not.

You are using the correct partition ID's etc?

just reboot,and see the output of 'fdisk -l' and cat /proc/partitions.they will(should) match.

Ah yes! After much Formatting and rebooting I appear to have a 5gb partition!

Thanks,

~James~