Re: Resize problem with parted

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Author: Craig White
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Resize problem with parted
On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 17:54 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
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> On Saturday 01 January 2005 05:31 pm, Craig White wrote:
> > A good guess would be to run
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> > e2fsck /dev/hda2
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> This is running now. Had to specify -f (force) and -y (yes to all questions)
> options since it was already marked clean and had no effect on parted. We'll
> see how it does when it is done running.
>
> > since you can't have it mounted while you resize it can you? Otherwise,
> > a reboot with 'shutdown now -fr' should handle it.
>
> Correct, it cannot be resized while mounted. I am running off the System
> Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org/). Nice tool, BTW.
>
> Oh, it's done running the fsck. I'll go try parted...
>
> Nope. Same "Error: Filesystem has incompatible feature enabled" problem.

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if it is truly an ext partition, you shouldn't have to specify 'f'
option to force. Only when it's journaled which meant that the
conversion from ext3 to ext2 wasn't complete.

If I recall correctly, conversion from ext2 to ext3 wasn't complete
until it was dismounted/remounted

Craig

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