[Parted-maintainers] Bug#379290: parted: request for ability to resize an extended partition

[zero79]

Package: parted
Version: 1.6.25.1-3
Severity: wishlist

hello, i am attempting to reconfigure my hard drive and need to resize
my extended partition.  parted is currently incapable of this operation.
if i do "rezize 4 8GB 20GB" i get the error message "Error: can't have
overlapping partitions."

this is a formal request for parted to support extended partition move
and resize operations.

please pass this message upstream if that makes the most sense.

thank you for your consideration.

mike

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-2      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted1.6-13               1.6.25.1-3 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline5                  5.1-7      GNU readline and history libraries

parted recommends no packages.

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