Re: I have problems resizing a primary ext2 partition.

[Andrew Clausen]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 07:13:44AM -0800, Jake Burns wrote:
> I just upgraded the BIOS on my server to allow it to
> see 163 gigs of my hard drive rather than 137 as
> before. 
> 
> I partitioned my hard drive like so:
> /dev/hda1 = primary /boot  (100MB)
> /dev/hda2 = primary /swap  (1 GB)
> /dev/hda3 = primary /      (8 GB)
> /dev/hda4 = primary /home  (127 GB)
> 
> I want to resize /dev/hda4 to take advantage or the
> extra 26 gigs or so but I can't seem to figure out how
> to do that.
> 
> I booted into Slackware 8.1 using linux single user
> mode and unmounted /dev/hda4 then I ran parted printe
> /dev/hda4

That wouldn't have done anything sensible.  Are you sure you didn't
type something else, like parted /dev/hda print 4?

Perhaps this confusion is your problem?

Cheers,
Andrew