# Extend ext3 partition /dev/sda2

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/extend-ext3-partition-dev-sda2/29858>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [May 31, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/extend-ext3-partition-dev-sda2/29858 "2017-05-31T18:59:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![acshearer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@acshearer](https://forums.suse.com/u/acshearer)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/extend-ext3-partition-dev-sda2/29858/1 "2017-05-31T18:59:23Z")

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I need to increase the space of my / volume. I have edited the VM with the added space and when I look at the Partitioner on the SLES server I see the added space on the drive. Now I want to extend the partition. I found the Document for doing this and ran the command “resize2fs /dev/sda2” but it does not resize, I get the message “The filesystem is already 15202560 blocks long. Nothing to do.”

/dev/sda1 is my SWAP partition and /dev/sda2 is my / partition and the one I want to expand. How can I get this added space added to the sda2 partition?

Thanks,  
Andrew

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**Author:** ![ab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/extend-ext3-partition-dev-sda2/29858/2 "2017-05-31T19:19:49Z")

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You need to expand the partition before you can expand the filesystem  
using it; using ‘parted’ (or YaST Partitioner where you already were) is a  
way to do this, but you probably need to boot from external media since  
you are expanding the root (/) filesystem from which you are running  
everything. Either way, though, you need to grow the partition before you  
grow the filesystem within. Look at ‘fdisk -l’ output fro your disk to see  
that the partition is probably still smaller than the disk:

```auto
fdisk -l /dev/sda
```

–  
Good luck.

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