Is qtparted working on FC1?

Emiliano Brunetti emiliano_brunetti at idg.it
Mon Jan 12 09:27:31 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 22:05, Alexander Dalloz wrote: 
> > > > I tried qtparted. Is anyone here using it with FC1?
[snip]
> > Moreover, qtparted seems to be strangely unable to manage ext3
> > partitions as well. 
> 
> >From features list it is able to handle proper.

This is the point. I can't figure out why it refuses to manage
ext3 partitions. And so, i get back to my original question: was anybody
on this list able to use qtparted and resize/move/copy at all some NTFS
or ext3 partition?

Just to know whether this is my own problem, something weird related to
my system (in such case i would go for a fresh install) or rather it is
a common problem and maybe i can use some other tool, possibly with a
GUI (i find it very boring to resize a partition using a text base
command, since i have to make some computations to get the desired
values for partitions size), to resize move and copy some partitions on
my FC1 system.

I know, of course, that PartitionMagic could be a answer. However, i
really don't want to use *any* windows tools (only as a really *last*
resort) and i'd like to test and 'learn' some linux specific tool for
the purpose.

[snip]
> > > > I checked all filesystems and they look good. 
> > > 
> > > Hm, you did that while they were unmounted, like booted in rescue mode?
> > 
> > Of course i didn't check a mounted filesystem! :)
> 
> Good! Excluded that point too.
> 
> > My point was different: qtparted claims those partitions were not 
> > cleanly unmounted. But it is wrong: they were cleanly unmounted and
> > they all passed the check. I have all the stuff it needs to manage 
> > ntfs partitions, but it doesn't. 
> > 
> > I made some test with parted, and i got similar errors. For instance,
> > parted refuse to resize and move ext3 partitions. So
> > probably the problem is to be tracked down to parted itself. I am not
> > sure, but parted should indeed be able to resize and move ext3
> > partitions, isn't it?
> 
> See the limitations on http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html
> [if you not did that already].

I saw the limitations, once again. ;)

Those limitations are ok. I am perfectly inside: i was trying to copy a
500 Mb ext3 partition on a 1Gb empty ext3 partition. I got the same
error message redarding 'strange layout of ext2 partition'.

Has anybody seen such a error message with parted before? Is anybody
using it?

> For special parted/qtparted problems and bugs I think it is worth to
> check the tools's mailinglist.

Sure. But i'd like, before to do such a thing, to get some feedback by
users on this list. However, it seems that nobody has really used
qtparted nor parted...at least nobody sent a mail saying 'works great to
me'.

E.





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