<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
instead, you should have used parted(8) or similar to expand the<br>
partition, then used resize2fs(8) to expand the file system on this<br>
partition to its new size.<br>
<br></blockquote><br><div>So I'm trying parted on a new, clean volume created from the snapshot, attached to /dev/sdm As I explained before, I can't do<br>
<br>$ parted /dev/sdm<div class="im"><br>[root@domU-12-31-39-0E-B2-61 ~]# parted /dev/sdm<br>Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sdm - Invalid argument <br><br></div><br>I <i>CAN</i> do parted on the path:<div class="im">
<br>$ parted /dev/sdm1<br>
GNU Parted 1.8.1<br>Using /dev/sdm1<br>Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.<br><br></div>But then i get this error:<br><br>(parted) resize 1 0 500GB<br>Error: The location 500GB is outside of the device /dev/sdo1.<br>
<br>Which is course is true ...<br><br>(parted) print <div id=":1g9"> <br>Disk /dev/sdm1: 21.5GB<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B<br>Partition Table: loop<br>
<br>Number Start End Size File system Flags<br>
1 0.00kB 21.5GB 21.5GB ext3 <br><br><br>So I'm not sure where to go from here... </div><br>thanks!<br>Dan<br><br></div></div>