A problem with parted, i want to resize one of my partition.

[Kent Nyberg]

On lör, 2004-09-25 at 13:01 -0500, Robert wrote:
> Kent Nyberg wrote:
> > Hello to you all,
> > 
> > When i first set up this computer i thought i would need a windows
> > partition, so i took 27gb of my 80gb drive and devoted them to a vfat-
> > partition. Now i have no use for windows and that partition. I could
> > always just use mkfs to create an ext3-partition there, but i want to
> > resize my main ext3-partition to include that space.
> > I deleted the vfat and booted with the Fedora rescue-cd.
> > 
> > I made sure that no parition i would use is mounted, and started parted.
> > Now, when i try to either move or resize i get a message about
> > "filesystem has incompatible features enabled". What are these features,
> > and how do i disable them?
> > I cant tell what kernel i created my ext3-partition with, although it
> > might be Fedore 1 or something. Lat night i read a bit of the parted
> > mailinglist and it seems that 'tune2fs -O ^dir_index /dev/partition' is
> > needed to disable one of the features parted does not work with, but
> > that did not help, i still got the message about incompatible features.
> > 
> > Can some one enlighten me about this?
> > 
> 
> I went 'round & 'round with this one a few months ago. Partition Magic 
> won't work either. You can read about the problem at 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-05/msg00048.html
> 
> What I finally did was to copy everything off that drive and start from 
> scratch.
> 
> In a nutshell, parted can't deal with the results of using the 
> "sparse_super" option in mke2fs. Unfortunately, that option is the 
> default. To turn it off,
> mke2fs -O ^sparse_super /dev/hdX
> with whatever other options you want. **Note the "^"**!
> If you're curious, try the mke2fs command WITH the -n option and with 
> and without the -O above and marvel at the difference in the number of 
> superblocks produced.
> 


Its tune2fs you meen? It seems strange running mke2fs on an already
existing fs, or? I might get you wrong here..  So I'l read up on the
manuals before. The exampel i saw last night used tune2fs.. 

> 
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Kent Nyberg <nyberg.kent at spray.se>