[Parted-maintainers] Bug#469842: when resizing a Debian Live partition, parted says "Error: The file system is bigger than its volume!"

[Pierre Bauduin]

Package: parted
Version: 1.7.1-5.1
Severity: normal

I have created a Debian Live system on a 2 GB USB key.
Here is what it looks like on the USB key:

[root at cobra] /root>fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 2013 MB, 2013265920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 244 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0007a8d3
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
   /dev/sdb1   *           1         101      811251   83  Linux

You see there is about 1.2 GB free after that Linux partition.

I am trying to move that Linux partition to the end of the 2 GB USB key.
This way I will be able to create a 1.2 GB FAT32 partition at the beginning
of the USB key.

Here is what I am doing:
[root at cobra] /root>parted /dev/sdb move 1 1200M 0M
Error: The file system is bigger than its volume!

Ouch ! parted won't let me move the partition !

See also Debian Bug 467481 I submitted on Feb 25

Would be nice if this could be fixed :)

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-6          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080203-1 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

parted recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre Bauduin
Linux enthusiast since 1996
Linux registered user #64711
Debian GNU/Linux user
website: http://pierre.baudu.in/
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