How to resize ext3-fs-partition (to extend toward disk beginning)?

[Robert Locke]

On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 11:06 +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote:
> Strong wrote:
> > I found the parted does not.
> > I found qtparted should and says about it still in the act menu that
> > command is turned off! - I just can't use it, notwithstanding the
> > partition is unmounted.
> > Did anybody do the same in FC4?
> > 
> 
> Last time I tried parted to resize ext3 it told me I had certain 
> parameters running on the drive preventing resizing.
> 
> Unfortunately it didn't tell me which parameters were causing it to bomb 
> out.
> 
> At the time I was in a hurry and couldn't find an answer anywhere so 
> re-installed, but you may want to persist with parted some more, as it's 
> error messages were far more direct then qtparted, which just had 
> everything I wanted greyed out.
> 
> Regards,
> Ed.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90894

That might shed a little light....

--Rob