[Parted-maintainers] Bug#323438: parted: problems in resizing a logical ext3

[Sven Luther]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:41:46PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> Package: parted
> Version: 1.6.23-3
> Severity: important
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> Hello,
> 
> I've searched over the docs (and the net) and it seems that I'm not
> wrong: parted can resize an ext3, provided that "the new start must be
> the same as the old start" [1].
> 
> But I've 2 kinds of different errors, here the output (note that the
> partition is unmounted and I tried in "emergency" mode with the same
> results).

libparted's ext2/3 code need to either be adapted to the new ext2/3 format, or
better yet be changed to use libext2 or whatever it is called.

In the meantime, and since nobody showed up to implement that bit of code for
over a year now, i strongly recomend you to use resize2fs to resize ext3
partitions.

Friendly,

Sven Luther