From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DvFlT-0005rw-UD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:41:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6KEeesQ011914; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:40:40 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.197]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6KEb2iU005626 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:37:03 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so1435774nzk for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:37:10 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:subject:references:content-type:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=Dv7+lwktqJkcoa0I6bC0zinFF4aGprw5I8uV/ueyqTNiXc2afKC/iC+Yp2CYSt4d/GoSBp2IK1c3C6VEMEqfCeMbWEE8jGc4ag+PAI78XQyPBrMdNBsA7dvaFoKpdeX8BVrU9imFw+ZgmEc75WFP77TlUH/Qba2ptRzwjOyqGRk= Received: by 10.36.121.17 with SMTP id t17mr128201nzc; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([81.242.168.239]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id r1sm2646057nzd.2005.07.20.07.36.28; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:36:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:36:26 +0200 From: charlyghislain To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 References: <42DAC506.6090409@terra.com.br> <42DB17BF.8080309@terra.com.br> <42DB7512.7000109@terra.com.br> <5491fade05071814356486b6b0@mail.gmail.com> <42DC404D.6000301@terra.com.br> <5491fade05071905242568fb28@mail.gmail.com> <42DD4CF3.9070501@terra.com.br> <5491fade05071914543e9b2f6@mail.gmail.com> <42DDDA59.7080301@asmallpond.org> <5491fade05072005193e20fe85@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <5491fade05072005193e20fe85@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera M2/8.0 (Linux, build 1095) X-Archives-Salt: ffd40222-1b1b-4bc6-98b2-5c1023c68848 X-Archives-Hash: 24f867506402faa06ba19d85a3ed5192 On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:19:47 +0200, James Hiscock wrote: >> Hi James > > Just for clarification, I'm not the one trying to resize an ext3 > partition: Bruno is... > > >> You can make your ext3 an ext2 partition by >> removing the "has_journal" feature (tune2fs -O ^has_journal >> /dev/partition). > > > ...and your advice was similar to the advice I gave him (but you > actually managed to write the command out correctly, whereas I didn't > ;), but he's still running into problems (parted is complaining that > there's an "unsupported filesystem feature enabled", which is why he > posted the output of tune2fs). parted used to not support ext3 resizing, so, there are chances it is the 'has_journal' feature causing problems. For now, it seems it is supported as with the methosd by resize2fs: the start of the partition must stay fixed :( (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html) > > I'm at a loss to help, but I've also been suggesting using parted > (which I've used successfully in the past)... maybe resize2fs will > work better as both you and Richard have suggested, but I've got no > experience with it... > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list