gparted resize works but partition is not changed
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Mepis 6.5
I have run gparted 0.2.5-2mepis1 on a partition which is not mounted to reduce in size, and it claims success.
But running df shows the partition has not really changed.
This is a SATA drive.Can someone give me advise on this, or suggest another program? Thanks.
Thanks for your reply. I did
Posts: 282
Thanks for your reply.
I did click "reply" and the program went thru the motions and indicated that operation was completed.
qtparted wouldnt let me resize.
Resolved by downloading gparted-iso, creating disk with k3b, then restarting from that disk.
You did the right thing.....
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Thanks for your reply.
I did click "reply" and the program went thru the motions and indicated that operation was completed.qtparted wouldnt let me resize.
Resolved by downloading gparted-iso, creating disk with k3b, then restarting from that disk.
Running either gparted or qtparted from within an installed distro is potentially disastrous. For (re)partioning, resizing, whatever, always use a bootable CD with partioning capabilities and make sure that existing harddisk partitions are NOT mounted. I strongly recommend the Gparted-iso.
I have used Gparted-iso v. 0.3.3-0 for a long time and have only a few days ago changed to PMagic 1.8 (which incorporates Gparted as well).
Regards, Ko
Ko Bros
Did you actually clicked
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Did you actually clicked "apply" after you modified the size of the partitions?
You can also try QTParted, that's installed on 6.x there's also a terminal utility called "cfdisk"
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