I installed a new 160 GB HDD and transferred the old image of my 80gb hdd by ghost. After transferring the new hdd didn't boot. I solved this with the setup tool of suse 9.2. After that the system boots fine.
When I checked the size of the free space I was surprised that there wasn't more space although the partition of hda2 seems to be widened by almost 80 gb. What did I do wrong. And how can I make Linux to recognize all of the free space?

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers

Peter

What you seem to have done is create a partition on your new disk that is the same size as your old disk. The rest of your new disk is empty, and unpartitioned and unformatted: so it is currently unusable.

You can:

Either use fdisk to create a linux partition on the free space of your new disk, and then create a filesystem there and then mount it (perhaps as /home?).

Or go back to running linux from your old disk, use fdisk to repartition your new disk, make a filesystem on your new disk's partition(s), and then copy all your files to the new disk and make it bootable. There are plenty of posts on this board about moving linux installations to a new, usually bigger HDD.

Good luck!

EDIT : Here's a link about how to do the second option:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...01#post1243901

Thank You for Your quick answer. During the imaging with ghost I widened the partition and I can't make an other partition on the hdd. There is no space left. If I check with yast or with fdisk -l it shows that all the new space is used by hda2. But the new free space doesn't show up in the file manager.

Thanks in advance

Peter

Then it looks as though the new free space exists on the partition, but is not formatted. You should follow the second option, above.