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linux - Can I make an ext3 filesystem recognize (and use) the entire partition?



Using gparted and partimage from SysRescCD I recently





  1. made a backup image of the partition containing my Ubuntu installation,

  2. deleted all partitions except for the original Windows partitions

  3. reduced the size of the Win7 partition

  4. created an extended partition using all unallocated space

  5. within the extended partition, created an ext3 partition and a swap partition

  6. restored the backup image to the ext3 partition



After these operations the ext3 partition is larger than when I started, but the filesystem is still reporting the old size:




$ fdisk -l 
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1549f232

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS

Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              13       12772   102487666    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           12773       76258   509947904    5  Extended
/dev/sda4           76258       77826    12591104    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5           12773       25597   103010304   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           25597       27016    11395072   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7           27016       59024   257102848   83  Linux


The extended partition /dev/sda3 contains /dev/sda5, /dev/sda6/, and /dev/sda7. The Ubuntu image is on /dev/sda5 - which is the same partition it was originally on. Before the operations /dev/sda5 was 50GB, now it is 98GB. 




$ sudo df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5              50G   46G  2.3G  96% /
none                  2.9G  276K  2.9G   1% /dev
none                  3.0G  2.1M  3.0G   1% /dev/shm
none                  3.0G  372K  3.0G   1% /var/run
none                  3.0G     0  3.0G   0% /var/lock
none                   50G   46G  2.3G  96% /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs
/dev/sdb1             597G  170G  427G  29% /media/My Book__

/dev/sda7             242G  8.2G  221G   4% /media/012583af-4e10-4bec-84b2-d691c3fd5f96


I'm looking for advice on what I can do to have ext3 on /dev/sda5 utilize the full 98G.


Answer



What you're attempting to do is resize the filesystem. Your image based backup kept all of the metadata that was on the original partition, which as you noticed also included the size. The program for this is resize2fs. You've already done the heavy lifting of getting the partition enlarged, so it should go pretty fast. Since it is your root partition, this will have to be done from single-user mode (or possibly booted from an ISO-Linux of some kind, I'm not certain).



resize2fs /dev/sda5



That should be all you need to do.



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