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I need to increase the swap partition size on a computer I am messing with 
(long story).  The parted utility returns "Filesystem has incompatible 
feature enabled" when I try to shrink one partition to make room for swap 
partition expansion.  I am almost to the point where I think I'll have to 
re-install since all my googling and searching has not turned up an answer.

Booting with the SystemRescueCD, I am attempting to manipulate the unmounted 
partitions and filesystems to get what I need.

Installed partitions:
Num	Start	End	Type	FS	Flags
1	0.031	99.914	Primary	ext3	Boot
2	99.914	37916.648	Primary	ext2
3	37916.648	38172.585	Primary	linux-swap

(I hope that is readable)

Partition 2 used to be ext3 but I ran:
tune2fs -O ^dir_index /dev/hda2
tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda2
to convert it to ext2, thinking parted would be happy with it then.

The idea is to leave the start of partition 2 at the same place but shrink the 
end and then move the start of the swap partition to take up the space just 
freed.  It is a nearly new intall so partition 2 should lots of free space to 
give up.

But, when I do the resize command in parted it just tells me "Filesystem has 
incompatible feature enabled" and won't do it.  The version of parted on the 
rescue CD is 1.6.11.  The latest version is 1.6.19 or something like that but 
I don't know how or where to download a binary and install it in the system 
running on the CD.  There are also reports that parted is now capable of 
resizing ext3 partitions but I cannot get it to work even after converting to 
ext2.

Anyone have any further ideas before I go through the effort of formatting and 
re-installation?

Alan
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