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halfbrain
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 Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 9:26 pm Post subject: Problems resizing ext3 root-partition |
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Hello!
I'm having problems with resizing my root-partition using parted. The parted Website clearly states, that parted is able to resize ext3 as long as the start of the partition stays fixed. Unfortunately I always get the following error-message when trying to resize my hda4.
| Code: | | This ext2 partition has a rather strange layout. Resizing this partition type isn't supported (yet)! |
(or something like this)
My partition table is:
| Code: | Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0,031 70,598 primary ext3
2 70,598 1302,143 primary linux-swap
4 1302,144 7491,247 primary ext3
3 14433,398 19532,153 extended lba
5 14433,429 19532,153 logical fat32 |
I would like to extend hda4 to the beginning of hda3. Do you know what this "rather strange layout"-message means?
halfbrain :) |
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PowerFactor
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 12:30 am Post subject: |
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Have a look at this thread.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=24848
You typicaly get the "strange layout" error from parted when the dir_index flag has been unset and e2fsck hasn't been run on the filesystem yet. |
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halfbrain
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| PowerFactor wrote: | | You typicaly get the "strange layout" error from parted when the dir_index flag has been unset and e2fsck hasn't been run on the filesystem yet. |
Right, so how can I do e2fsck with my root-partition? Does Knoppix come with the e2fsprogs?
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PowerFactor
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, it does. You're better off using a gentoo livecd though. The Knoppix cd I have has a buggy version of e2fsprogs (1.30-WIP) but there has been another release of knoppix since then so that may have been fixed. |
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halfbrain
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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Well I'm about to give up the idea with resizing my partition. I did the e2fsck things but still I encountered problems:
With dir_index set parted said:
Error: Filesystem has incompatible feature enabled
Without dir_index:
No implementation: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout! Parted can't resize this (yet)!
I think I'll just borrow a harddisk from a friend and repartition my whole disk, but if you know any other workaround please post it.
Thanks,
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pubecon
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| Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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I'm in the same situation
without dir_index (-O ^dir_index) and I get the "ext2" message, with (-O +dir_index) it I get the "incompatible feature" message.
just resize my ext3 partition, parted, will you?!! |
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