Bug#358001: partman: please create ext3 file systems with online resize support

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

tags 358001 - patch
thanks

An alternative to providing ext2prepare is to remove tune2fs.  If
/sbin/tune2fs isn't available, partman-ext3 will use the code path
calling mkfs.ext3, and thus generate file systems with the
resize_inode option enabled.

I'm testing this approach now in debian-ed, because my initial testing
with ext2prepare gave me fsck problems with the small /boot/ partition
used in the workstation profile.

The progress bar when using mkfs.ext3 is not very accurate nor very
fine grained, but I prefer correct over nice if I have to make that
choice, and hope someone can get patches into mkfs.ext3 to support a
better progress bar.

I am removing the 'patch' tag because I believe the patch I provided
is unsafe until ext2prepare is improved to not mess up small file
systems.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen