how to resize/grow an existing partition

[Konstantin Svist]

Kevin Kempter 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?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>   

IMHO, it's much easier to just use clonezilla to copy the partitions, 
then gparted to resize them.

There used to be a gparted-clonezilla boot CD, but the maintainer quit.. 
so it has slightly outdated versions 
(http://download.tuxfamily.org/gpartedclonz/)
Another good boot CD (which can easily be put onto a USB thumbdrive) is 
clonezilla-sysresccd - it should have latest gparted and clonezilla. 
(http://clonezilla-sysresccd.hellug.gr/intro.html#download)


The cool thing about clonezilla is that it understands the layout of the 
partition and is able to copy data-only - so if you have 100G drive with 
1G data, it will only copy 1G :)
If that's not useful to you, you can use gparted itself to copy the 
partitions over.