parted

[Matt Morgan]

On 08/25/2004 10:03 PM, Robert wrote:

> Marc wrote:
>
>> Good evening.
>>
>> I use Fedora Core 2 and I try to use parted to modify my partitions.
>>
>> But when I try to run in a prompt... 
>> [ marc at jupiter marc]$ su Password:  [ root at jupiter marc ] # parted 
>> bash:  parted:  command not found [ root at jupiter marc ] #
>> I don't see anything in the manual which can help me.
>>
>> After a research, I have the program in /sbin and the files in
>> /usr/include/parted. 
>> Would somebody have an idea ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
> You didn't ask, but you might want to read 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-05/msg00048.html
> if you plan on resizing an ext2 or ext3 partition -- or for that 
> matter, before creating an ext2 or ext3 partition that you might want 
> to resize in the future.
> I recently spent more time than I like to admit, fighting this one, 
> cluttering up this maiking list in the bargain.
>
Thanks for that link! I got that error a little while ago but didn't try 
to figure it out, it was easy enough to back up and make new partitions.

I did a little googling and it looks like tune2fs can clear this setting 
on existing partitions. Is that right?

--Matt