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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:55 pm 
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I was running out of space on Disk-1, an 80gig drive... so I got a 320gig drive on sale and decided to use Norton Ghost 2003 to clone the 80gig drive onto the 320gig drive. I have now swapped out the 80gig drive with the 320gig drive, fired up the NAS (this is with NAS-Lite SMB) and it recognised the new Disk-1, listed the new drive specs (drive maker, size, etc) on /Info/Disk-1.htm :

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Disk-1 Initialization Messages

   1. Checking for Disk-1
   2. Found Disk-1 partition
   3. Verified Disk-1 filesystem
   4. Attempting to mount Disk-1 filesystem
   5. Disk-1 filesystem mounted successfully

Disk-1 Hardware

    * WDC WD3200JB-00KFA0, ATA DISK drive
    * attached ide-disk driver.
    * host protected area => 1
    * 625142448 sectors (320073 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=38913/255/63

NOTE: Disk-1 is installed and available for use.

...but /Info/System.html still lists that drive as an 80gig capacity:

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Disks

Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use%      Device
System                    3.9M      2.4M      1.5M  61%      RAM Disk
Storage Area            123.5G     72.4G     44.8G  62%      NAS Disk-1
Storage Area            146.7G    106.7G     40.0G  73%      NAS Disk-2

Am I missing something here? Shouldn't it have now been recognised as having the larger capacity? Is there a way to make it "see" the extra space that's there now? I'm pretty sure Ghost, when it cloned the drive, was supposed to have expanded it to use the whole, additional space of the new drive. I selected (from) Disk (to) Disk for the copying, with both drives on the same IDE chain, and with the current Disk-2 disconnected from the chain.


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:45 pm 
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Well, I seems that Ghost did not expand things to the full size when I cloned the drive, which is odd because the last time I'd done something like this it did. But, then, last time it was a Windoze HDD, and at that, last time I had it saved to an image file, then wrote the image to the new, larger drive, and it expanded things to fit the larger disk.

In any event, I fixed it. Downloaded the GParted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GParted) live CD and expanded the partition to fit the whole drive.

It now shows up as the whole capacity on the NAS now...


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:16 pm 
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Depending on which version of Ghost you use, it does not always know how to deal with a particular file system, and will resort to a sector copy for safety reasons.


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