On 08/30/2011 04:54 AM, Ed Morrison wrote: > Hi All: > > I am trying to resize a centos (5.2) VM drive. I use VMware and I have > increased the size of the drive by 40G. I am running resize2fs on > /dev/sdb1 (which is my root partition) but when I do I get this error: > > [root at centos ~]# resize2fs /dev/sdb1 120G > resize2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) > The containing partition (or device) is only 19970795 (4k) blocks. > You requested a new size of 31457280 blocks. > > How can I change the block size? > > I have also tried to use gparted live cd but it will not allow me to > increase the size even though it sees 40g of unused space. I can only > create a new partition. > > Any help would be appreciated. After having resized the virtual drive have you also resized the partitions inside the VM? Doing a "fdisk /dev/sdb" will probably show you a 40G drive but the partitions will still have the old size and you need to extend them before you can extend the filesystems on them. Regards, Dennis