Disk Partiotioning

[Gustavo Seabra]

Robert wrote:

> C. Linus Hicks wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Actually, this won't solve your problem with QTparted. It doesn't
>> support resizing ext3 or ext2 filesystems. And from playing around with
>> parted, I think you would run into "Filesystem has incompatible feature
>> enabled" errors if you tried using it.
>
>
> Because, as I learned a few months ago, the filesystem was created 
> with "sparse superblocks", which is the default behavior.  A 
> workaround is to always include -O ^sparse_super in the options string 
> for mke2fs. The partition will then be resizable by parted, qtparted 
> or Partition Magic. A bit more disk space is consumed in overhead but 
> at today's storage costs, I really couldn't care less.  YMMV

I only wish I could have done it before ;-)


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