Is qtparted working on FC1?

Gerry Doris gdoris at rogers.com
Sun Jan 11 21:49:29 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:11, Emiliano Brunetti wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 19:25, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > I would recommend to use the qtparted RPM by fedora.us which is compiled
> > on and for FC1.
> 
> So i did, no changes. :(
> 
> As a last resort, i also tried to use parted (1.6.3-31, the one that comes
> with fedora) from rescue mode.
> It simply refuses to manage ext3 partitions, and i get the following
> error message:
> 
> -No Implementation: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange 
> -layout!  Parted can't resize this (yet).
> 
> Maybe i miss something? But what? Isn't parted supposed to manage
> ext3 partitions?
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> E.

If you really need to use qtparted and it doesn't support ext3 then you
can always change your ext3 partitions back to ext2 temporally using
tune2fs.

-- 
Gerry Doris <gdoris at rogers.com>





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