Alan Dayley wrote:
> 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.

You need to let fsck have it's way with the partition after you remove 
the journal.

-- 
Michael