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Using gnome-disk-utility

  1. I've taken a filesystem image (15~GB)
  2. destroyed the partition it was on and created a larger one (33~ GB)
  3. restored the filesystem image on the new partition

now the filesystem is smaller than the partition it sits on, but gnome-disk-utility does not agree. I had 1,4GB free space when the partition was 15GB total, so now that partition is 33GB total it should really be 19,4GB free space! 1,4GB free should really be 19,4GB I think I need a terminal command (maybe resize2fs) to make the filesystem the same size of the new partition, can you please help?

P.s. I'm on Ubuntu 21.04 beta

dav2dev
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Yes, resize2fs is correct. You give it the name of the partition as its only argument, and it will look up the current size of the partition and extend the file system to that size.

Simon Richter
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