OK so I had a small SATA hdd that I replaced with a large SATA. I cloned the small disk using the dd if=.. command and everything went well. I'm currently using the new hdd.

My problem is that the smaller hdd size shows up.

Thinking swiftly... I thought I'd change the files system to xfs (as I was thinking of this anyway) and maybe this would 'fix' things. Well it didn't. I still see the smaller size, but no worse for the ware.

So how can I 'recover' the unused hdd space? would a backup and upgrade (F1 to F1) work? Is there an easier way?

TIA

I've never done this before, but have you tried to "grow" the filesystem?

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I'll looking into xfs_growfs, I take it this is what your speaking of? Anyone use xfs_growfs?


This is my partitions. Seems I'm missing a bit here...

I think growfs is what you want. The other alternative is to nuke the /myth partition, create a new empty one on the big disk, and use tar to copy the data from the old disk to the new big disk. My tar skills are rusty but I think it's something like:



But by all means consult someone who knows what he's doing...

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There is also Gparted Live CD which can resize partitions on the fly.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php

Question is does the live cd contain XFS kernel drivers.

thanks for the assistance. isn't GParted included with Ubuntu? I remember playing around with it at one point, I have Ubuntu 6.1(?) at home, I'll see what I can do with that.

I should also mention that I've moved any recordings of value, so the /myth partition is basically empty if I need to change the filesystem or something. I just don't fancy doing a complete re-install as there are a number of tweaks that I forget how to do... until I need to do them again.

This did the trick! gparted took 7 seconds to repartition and find my 'lost' space. and yes it worked fine with XFS.