Partition Inconsistencies

[John M. Moniz]

I was at my sister's yesterday increasing the size of the / partition on 
her Mandriva 2007 box. It was at 99% full. I added a small HD for /home 
and expanded the extended partition to fill the space vacated by the old 
/home partition, then expanded the / partition within the extended 
partition using gparted from the Ubuntu 6.06 live CD.

There was an error while expanding the / partition and I thought I'd 
lost everything in it. I rebooted and it all still came up. I could see 
the new larger partition in fdisk or gparted, but df showed the same old 
partition size and a fill of 99%. I tried adding a bunch of programs and 
the / partition did indeed fill up as per the old size, running out of 
space and preventing a KDE login.

I'm not sure what to do to make the new partition show up properly. I 
can try to resize it smaller again and back to larger the next time I 
drop in to her place, but I'll just be grasping at straws. Any ideas 
what I could do?

Thanks,

John.
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