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I noticed i running low on disk space :

xbian@xbian ~ $ df -Bm
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 658M 623M 36M 95% /
/dev/mmcblk0p2 658M 623M 36M 95% /
tmpfs 38M 1M 38M 1% /run
tmpfs 5M 0M 5M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 10M 0M 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 75M 0M 75M 0% /run/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p1 34M 11M 24M 32% /boot

So i used xbian config menu to resize my partition to full sd card size (i got 4gb one).
After rebooting i got the same reulsts as shown before.

After little digging i found that my partition is indeed 4gb but the rootfs isn't :

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 3973 MB, 3973054464 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 121248 cylinders, total 7759872 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000f06a6

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 2048 71679 34816 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 71680 7759871 3844096 83 Linux


So tried to resize it using :

sudo resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

and got :

resize2fs: Permission denied to resize filesystem

Other parameter told me the its in use and can be done.

Am i missing something ?

Thanks in advance.

You will need to resize the partition offline.

(26th Apr, 2013 02:56 AM)f1vefour Wrote: [ -> ]You will need to resize the partition offline.

You mean not connected to the internet ?

Rich

Sorry, I meant while not in use.

Thanks for info. Had similar problem the other day, resize2fs wouldn't work and had the online error message.

Did try unmounting on another laptop but still wouldn't work.

Thanks

Rich

I always use gparted when available, works great.

(25th Apr, 2013 06:51 PM)hagayg Wrote: [ -> ]resize2fs: Permission denied to resize filesystem

Other parameter told me the its in use and can be done.

Am i missing something ?

Thanks in advance.

I suppose xbian user doesn't has rights to sudo resize2fs.

You can always try "sudo -i" first - it will ask for xbian password again and login you as root.

Then re-try "resize2fs /dev/......."

mk

Just reinstalled xbain and it started on the correct size.