Solved: [wplug] windows drive properties don't match partition table
Mark Haney
mh4s at xinterra.com
Fri Jun 25 23:45:34 EDT 2004
I restored the original partition table, then downloaded and tried a
different version of Parted (1.6.5). It worked! (I had been using
version 1.6.11.
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>
> > 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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