Re: Questions about parted

["Seneca Cunningham" <seneca@slemish.com>]

As I previously wrote:
> Matthias Wieser <developer@hiasl.net> wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2002 03:29 schrieb Seneca Cunningham:
> > > I am want to resize all of my partitions, and from what I have read,
parted
> > > is a way to do it. I originally tried the version in potato, but it
didn't
> > > yet do what it needs to for my first step: reducing the FAT16
partition
by
> > > about 900M. So I upgraded to the woody version and now I get this:
> > >
>
> > > icosagon:/sbin# ./parted
> > > invalidate: busy buffer
> > > [many lines of "invalidate: busy buffer"]
> > > (parted) quit
> > > [14 more lines of "invalidate: busy buffer"]
> > > icosagon:/sbin#
> > >
> >

> > parted worked for me on unstable.
>
> I might try that later.

I have just tried that, and I get the same message as before. So now I ask,
is it safe to use in it's current state (beyond the normal risks of
partition editting)? And what other tools could I use instead of parted?

Thanks for any help,

Seneca
seneca@slemish.com