On Sunday 31 December 2006 09:28, Adam Porter wrote: > I am copying my Debian installation onto a new hard drive with LVM and > encrypted swap and /tmp. I tried to use the installer's option to > "Copy data from partition," but after I selected the source partition, > it complained about parted not being able to resize a partition that > had dir_index enabled, saying that parted can only resize it if it > disables dir_index first. I don't know why it would need to resize > any of the partitions just to copy data from one partition to another, > and I'm not sure if it was referring to the source partition, or the > new, blank partition. I can reproduce the fact that new features like dir_index and resize_inode are not supported. This does not only affect copying data, but also plain resizing of a partition (which is refused with the rather vague message "unable to determine max new size for partition", but has the same underlying problem). For reference, see for example: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/59620 However, If I create a new (ext3) partition and try to copy data from an existing (ext3) partition, I only get a message that an incompatible feature is enabled and both the "Go Back" and "Continue" options do the right thing: cancel the action without any harm done. I'd like to make sure that what happened to you does not occur to others, but it seems that to reproduce this, we'll need more info about what exactly you did. What we need seems to be: - exact partition/file system layout before you started - any partitioning changes you made before trying the copy action - which partitions you selected as source and target for the copy operation Cheers, FJP
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