[Parted-maintainers] Bug#436221: parted doesn't detect if a filesystem's size is more little than the corresponding partition

[Paolo Benvenuto]

Package: parted
Version: 1.7.1-5.1
Severity: minor

I had copied with dd a filesystem from a 10 GB partition to a 20 GB one and I forgot resizing the filesystem after dd'ing it.

As a result, parted told me that I had a 20 GB partition, while df told me I had only 10 GB.

I propose giving parted the skill to detect such a situation, so that parted report it to the user and propose ti resize the filesystem.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=es_DO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_DO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.6-5          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20070716-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted1.7-1            1.7.1-5.1      The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline5              5.2-3          GNU readline and history libraries

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