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wv5f7

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Registered: 2020-03-18

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[Solved] Wrong partition size after resizing

I have resized (enlarged) system partition with cfdisk while being logged in. Now lsblk and KDE partition manager see new partition size (53 GiB). Old size was 26.5 GiB. KDE partion manager reports correctly that 24.99 GiB is used, but "lsblk --fs" reports that 94% is used. PCManFM-Qt (I use LXQT) sees the old size, 26.5 GiB, and reports that only 97.3 MiB left available. I'm baffled.

Here is an illustrating screenshot.

Last edited by wv5f7 (2020-04-04 08:10:39)

sabroad

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Registered: 2015-05-24

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Re: [Solved] Wrong partition size after resizing

Resized /dev/sda1 but it's not updating for arch?

You haven't resized the filesystem to use the new available space on the partition.

resize2fs /dev/sda3

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saint_abroad

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

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Re: [Solved] Wrong partition size after resizing

I don't understand your screenshot so I don't fully understand what problem you have exactly.

I'm guessing you have only resized the partition, but you didn't resize the filesystem that's inside your partition. For ext4 filesystems the tool do resize it is named "resize2fs". You run resize2fs with just the device name on its command line and it will then enlarge the filesystem to fill your partition.

wv5f7

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Registered: 2020-03-18

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Re: [Solved] Wrong partition size after resizing

Thank you!

I've just did "resize2fs /dev/sda3" and it worked!

seth

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Re: [Solved] Wrong partition size after resizing

Great.
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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