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My root partition was filling up, with only 500 mbs left, I wanted to resize my root partition from 20 Gb to 40Gb

So I resized my partition by using these steps:

  1. Using Gparted to resize another partition to give space for the EXT4
  2. Using fdisk, deleting the root partition (on /dev/sda2), and creating it again using the new size
  3. resize2fs /dev/sda2
  4. Updating grub2

But now the problem is that although I can boot in my new partition and the new partition shows it is 40Gb, but the free size was still 500mb. So I booted from a LiveCD and checked with e2fsck -p /dev/sda2, it reported clean. So I added the -f flag (force check), still, the drive is full.

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  • sudo fdisk -l please.
    – Bobby
    Commented Mar 1, 2010 at 13:11
  • and add the filesystem size info from sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda2
    – quack quixote
    Commented Mar 1, 2010 at 14:37
  • thanks, but I used gparted to check partition and it just fixed it for me
    – TiansHUo
    Commented Mar 3, 2010 at 6:37

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I used gparted under livecd to check partition and it just fixed it for me.

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    Consider accepting your own answer by marking it as such, if this fixed your problem.
    – Gnoupi
    Commented Apr 8, 2010 at 9:23

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