Ghosting a new [ larger ] harddrive problem
Posts: 229
Hello,
Using partimage I made images of of my dual boot harddrive and successfully have both xp and Mepis 6.0 running on the new much larger drive.
I made the swap file larger, and Mepis recognizes that.
However, in both XP and Mepis, they see themselves as the original image size.
How can I change the image size settings in both XP and Mepis to match the new larger partition sizes?
Any help would be much appreciated,
Thanks,
Carl
solved !
Posts: 229
Thanks to Tim on Mepislovers I found the solution.
To resize a Linux partition:
-run mepis live in root
-run resize2fs /dev/hdc4 or what ever your partition is.
in my case, it asked to run e2fsck -f /dev/hdc4 first which I did, than resize2fs /dev/hdc4
To resize ntfs [XP in my case ]
- run Mepis live in root.
- run ntfsresize /dev/hdc1 or what ever you ntfs partition is.
Many Thanks to Tim,
Carl
One Suggested Addition
Posts: 5513
If possible, before you make any changes to those partitions, BACK UP THE ORIGINAL DATA 
I have used resize2fs, and sometimes things can get messed up really fast...
Jon
The ability to comfortably use a computer is directly proportional to desire to listen, learn, and experiment, and is inversely proportional to the fear, anger, and stubbornness that you show.
resize your drives
Posts: 516
I'm not sure what the problem is, but the best way to resize your drives is to use the Mepis cd.
I use "Ghost for Unix" to copy drives http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ and never had a problem.
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