[wplug] windows drive properties don't match partition table

Mark Haney mh4s at xinterra.com
Fri Jun 25 23:26:39 EDT 2004



> Mark Haney wrote:
> 
> > I finally deleted the Windows partition (after
> > backing up the partition table with sfdisk) and re-created it to fill
> > all the available space.
> 
>
> Jonathan Billings replied: 
>
> While you did create a *partition* that is the new size, the 
> *filesystem* on that partition is still the original size.  parted and 
> other utilities like it actually modify the filesystem and "stretch" it 
> to the new size. 

I understand now. I'll restore the original partition table and try
again to grow the partition with a tool that will also grow the filesystem. 

Thanks for pointing that out! 



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