how to resize/grow an existing partition

[Mauriat M]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Kevin Kempter <kevin at kevinkempterllc.com> wrote:
> Hi List;
>
>  My laptop running Fedora 7 had a 100G SATA drive. I went out yesterday and
>  purchased a 320G drive.
>
>  First I used dd to transfer my entire existing drive to the new drive, it
>  worked perfectly - I'm typing this on my system via the new drive now.
>
>  Can someone give me some guidance per resizing my existing file systems to
>  take advantage of the new space. If I run resize2fs straight away I get this:
>
>  # resize2fs -p /dev/sda5 25G
>  resize2fs 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
>  The containing partition (or device) is only 3711007 (4k) blocks.
>  You requested a new size of 6553600 blocks.
>
>  I suspect I need to do something with fdisk first?
>

Try parted, or gparted for a gui.

# yum install gparted

-Mauriat