After doing much reading of textbooks and online resources I began the proce
ss of resizing my /var partition as it is used by many processes including e
-mail and databases in particular.

 

Before I began I printed out from parted and df.

The main bits of interest were:

 

(parted-output)

Disk label type: msdos

Minor    Start         End          Type      Filesystem  Flags

6          5098.786   6118.505   logical    ext3        

7          6118.537   6502.873   logical    linux-swap  

 

and 

(df -h output)

Filesystem            Size       Used     Avail    Use%   Mounted on

none                     121M      0          120M   0%       /dev/shm

/dev/hda6             1004M     284M    669M   30%     /var

 

Following an example from the gnu.org site for using parted I deleted the li
nux-swap file thus:

 

rm  7

 

I then resized the /var partition:

 

Resize 6  5098  8999

 

I then recreated the linux-swap:

 

mkpartfs 7  logical ext2 8999  9500

 

Everything went fine, or so I thought.

Machine re-booted, parted prints the new sizes for the partitions but, df -h
  still shows old partition sizes.

Any idea how on earth I can get the new partition sizes correctly recognised
?

 

Thanks.

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