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
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