Author: Michael Date: To: plug-discuss Subject: Re: Resize problem with parted
Alan Dayley wrote: > On Saturday 01 January 2005 04:51 pm, Michael wrote:
>
>>>>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.
>
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Did I miss a step converting to ext2? What does "let fsck have it's way"
> mean?
I can't find documentation for it at the moment, but I've always had to
run fsck on a partition after removing the journal before it was
mountable or otherwise useful.