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

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

Hi,

On Sunday 12 December 2004 22:54, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> > 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.
> could you please specify what the error is? Do you have any error
> message? 

Opps, sorry.

The message is "The resize operation is impossible - Because of an unknown 
reason it is impossible to resize this partition." 

> Why you think this is a partman problem instead of an 
> ext2resize bug?

Good question. To be honest, I assumed it was partman only cause that's 
were the error occured.

Now I investigated a bit ;-) When I try to manually resize the partition with 
parted, I get the error "Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted. You should 
e2fsck. Modifying an unclean filesystem could cause severe corruption." After 
using e2fsck, parted resizes without a problem. On the x86 (160gb ide)

On the pegasos2 (40gb ide) I still get the following error (after using 
e2fsck) with parted: "No implementation: This ext2 filesystem has a rather 
strange layout! Parted can't resize this (yet)." - Maybe because there are 
only primary partitions, no extended ? Partman still shows the same error 
("operation impossible due to an unknown error").

btw, does partman use ext2resize or (lib)parted ?


> Thank,s
> Giuseppe

thank you to,
regards,
 Holger