[Parted-maintainers] Bug#475225: [parted resize] Parted resize Problem

[José Antonio Insua ( Ungoliant )]

Package: parted resize
Version: 1.7.1-5.1
Severity: normal

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--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-686

Debian Release: etch
  
--- Package information. ---
Depends               (Version) | Installed
===============================-+-=============
libc6              (>= 2.3.6-6) | 2.7-10
libncurses5          (>= 5.4-5) | 5.6+20080405-1
libparted1.7-1     (>= 1.7.1-1) | 1.7.1-5.1
libreadline5           (>= 5.2) | 5.2-3

Steps to reproduce the bug.

- have a 250 gb hard disk with following partitions:

3 gb, 247 gb, 0.5 gb

- resize to:
3 gb, 215 gb, free space, 0.5 gb

- fsck -f partition 2, everything is OK

- resize to:
3 gb, 230 gb, free space, 0.5 gb


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You will have the following text, over and over:

Warning: Block 52691468 shouldn't have been marked (0, 0)!


You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:

Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data.
Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:

Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking
the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at:

        http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

Please check this version prior to bug reporting.

If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check,
please visit the GNU Parted website:

        http://www.gnu.org/software/parted

for further information.

Your report should contain the version of this release (1.7.1)
along with the error message below, the output of

        parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

and additional information about your setup you consider important.

Assertion (block < EXT2_SUPER_BLOCKS_COUNT(fs->sb)) 
at ../../../../libparted/fs/ext2/ext2.h:226 in function
ext2_is_data_block() failed.

Ignore/Cancel? C
Warning: Block 52691471 shouldn't have been marked (0, 0)!


You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:

Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data.
Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:

Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking
the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at:

        http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

Please check this version prior to bug reporting.

If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check,
please visit the GNU Parted website:

        http://www.gnu.org/software/parted

for further information.

Your report should contain the version of this release (1.7.1)
along with the error message below, the output of

        parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

and additional information about your setup you consider important.

Assertion (block < EXT2_SUPER_BLOCKS_COUNT(fs->sb)) 
at ../../../../libparted/fs/ext2/ext2.h:226 in function
ext2_is_data_block() failed.

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And it never ends.

I'm in a big hurry to recover the server. Please, ask anything more that can 
be of need.

Best regards.