[SOLVED] Growing Root Partitions

I_Go_By_M · 2019-06-30 16:30:59

Hello, just got rid of Windows for Arch.

When I was installing Arch, I decided to stick to my guide as close as possible for security reasons, and I would later customize my install as I saw fit. I had an extra 450 GiB of space unallocated, which I just went ahead and gave to my /home partition.
Currently, running

lsblk

produces the following:

sda      8:0    0   2.7T  0 disk 
sdb      8:16   0 465.8G  0 disk 
|-sdb1   8:17   0   512M  0 part 
|-sdb2   8:18   0    20G  0 part /
`-sdb3   8:19   0 445.3G  0 part /home
sdc      8:32   0   2.7T  0 disk 
|-sdc1   8:33   0   128M  0 part 
`-sdc2   8:34   0   2.7T  0 part 
sdd      8:48   1  57.9G  0 disk 
`-sdd1   8:49   1  57.9G  0 part

I'm also getting 445.3G in KDE Partition Manager.

However, Dolphin and Steam still don't recognize the change, after many a reboot.

So I guess I have a couple questions:

Should I have allocated the space to
```
root
```
instead? What's the difference?
How can I fix this, so that everything is detecting my whole drive?

Thanks in advance, appreciate all the help I can get! I can answer any questions as needed

Last edited by I_Go_By_M (2019-07-02 14:04:42)

Zod · 2019-06-30 17:16:28

Without knowing what kind of file systems/volumes you have in place.

As far as what you "should have done", that's completely up to you.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … partitions

If you choose to do so...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … partitions

Also see...
http://positon.org/resize-an-ext3-ext4-partition

Last edited by Zod (2019-06-30 17:18:04)

I_Go_By_M · 2019-06-30 17:38:35

Hey, thanks! I realized my mistake now, I didn't properly resize the filesystem after making the new partition. That last link did it. Thanks so much!

WorMzy · 2019-06-30 17:51:21

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#1 2019-06-30 16:30:59

[SOLVED] Growing Root Partitions

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