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I have a Ubuntu machine running 12.04 LTS on it. I had a very small "/" partition at the beginning, say of 16 GB. Now i added a 50 GB to it which i split from another partition and added to the "/". All the process has been done through gparted. Even after extending the partition, it still doesn't show that 50GB in as free space. Te 50 GB i added is shown as used, the free space still remains close to 1GB which was the same before extending the partition. Any Suggestions?

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  • The partition size does not necessarily equal the filesystem size. You should use resize2fs to check this. Consult the manual on usage man resize2fs.
    – Baarn
    Dec 3, 2012 at 7:21
  • @Informaficker but does doing that cause a data loss on my device ?
    – rahul
    Dec 3, 2012 at 11:10
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    normally it is safe, anyway you should always make a backup before resizing partitions.
    – Baarn
    Dec 3, 2012 at 15:20
  • Please add the output of df to your question.
    – psusi
    Dec 3, 2012 at 16:43

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Resize your filesystem using resize2fs.

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  • gparted does this for you.
    – psusi
    Dec 3, 2012 at 16:42
  • @psusi Does it do so even if started from a live CD/USB?
    – haziz
    Dec 3, 2012 at 17:19
  • @psusi i have already done this using gparted in live cd mode.
    – rahul
    Dec 4, 2012 at 8:23
  • of course, that is the usual way one runs it.
    – psusi
    Dec 4, 2012 at 15:25
  • I would still try to resize the filesystem using resize2fs (run as root (sudo resize2fs on Ubuntu)). You can create a backup of your data first if you have a safety concern.
    – haziz
    Dec 5, 2012 at 1:06

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