Andreas, thanks for the insight. I was confusing the fs and partitions. Thanks again, Dan At 12:26 PM 3/26/02 -0700, you wrote: >On Mar 26, 2002 13:15 -0600, Dan Crowson wrote: > > >This is because parted is using an old version of the ext2resize > > >library. If you use ext2resize instead of parted (after resizing the > > >partition) then it will not have this problem. > > > > I appreciate the reply, but I'm not following your comments above. I was > > using parted to *do* the resize at the suggestion of others. What > would be > > the procedure to get this done? > >Basically, the problem boils down as follows: >1) parted does partition resizing >2) parted does ext2 filesystem resizing, but uses a version of the > ext2resize code which is old and overly restrictive in what it > can resize >3) there is a stand-alone executable for ext2/ext3 filesystem resizing, > called (not surprisingly) ext2resize which does not have the > limitations that parted does. You can download it from > sf.net/projects/ext2resize or use an RPM which comes with your > distro. There is also a program resize2fs which is part of e2fsprogs > that will do the same thing. >4) the ext2resize program only does _filesystem_ resizing and not > partition resizing, so you need to either hand-edit your partition > table with fdisk or similar (you can only change the END of a > partition and still have data left) and then use ext2resize or > resize2fs to resize the filesystem. > >Using parted is handy because it combines the two operations (resizing >the partition and resizing the filesystem), and it can also be used to >do things like moving partitions around. However, until it is fixed to >handle the problem you are having, you need to use ext2resize or >resize2fs directly. > >IIRC, your case is that you want to use a larger disk, so you would only >need to use fdisk to increase the size of the last partition and then >run ext2resize on it to resize the filesystem. > >Cheers, Andreas >-- >Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, > \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" >http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Crowson | dcrowson@cmsc.com CMS Communications, Inc. | dcrowson@crowson.com 715 Goddard Ave | http://crowson.com Chesterfield MO 63005 | http://www.cmsc.com | ICQ # 9379860 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
