Bug#285354: cannot resize some (ext3) partitions (ppc+x86)

[Holger Levsen <debian@layer-acht.org>]

package: partman
version: rc2

Hi,

I tried resizing today. In general it works, great!

But on two different machines (one x86-k6 with an 160gb ide and a pegasos2 
(with amiga disklabels) and a 40gb ide) I encountered two partitions which 
cannot resize, which is think I should be able to do.


These are the partition-tables (created with "parted $dev print"), on the 
pegasos I was able to resize swap, backup, varlog and home (but not root and 
boot, nor mos nor mos-data - but I don't care about the last two) and on the 
x86 I was able to resize swap but not boot.

Disk geometry for /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 0.000-38166.679 
megabytes
Disk label type: amiga
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
1          3.999    107.973  ext2        boot                  
2        107.974    611.850  asfs        mos                   boot
3        611.851   3615.117  asfs        mos-data              
4       3615.117   4618.872  linux-swap  swap                  hidden
5       4618.872  19997.116  ext3        root                  boot
6      19997.117  20063.100  ext3        backup                
7      20063.101  21996.628  ext3        varlog                
8      21996.628  38166.679  ext3        home                  
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.             

Disk geometry for /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 0.000-131072.000 
megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031 130316.330  primary   ext3        boot
2     130316.331 131069.377  extended              lba
5     130316.361 131069.377  logical   linux-swap  
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.             

If you need more information, ask, I'll provide. These are test machines, so I 
could repeat this (or something else) easily...


regards,
 Holger