Matt Price wrote:
hi folks, so, I tried tor esize a couple of ext3 partitions today using parted & qtparted and had trouble with both. Then I oogled around and it seems support for ext3 is broken on parted. Soooo.... what do folsk do when they need to resize an ext3 partition? thanks, matt --------------------------.''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User`. `'` & hemi-geek`- -------------------------- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: aardvark@derailleur.org, zeus@derailleur.org
Ext3 is just Ext2 + a journal.Assuming you have a *cleanly unmounted* ext3 partition (run fsck -f on it to be sure); you can safely:
1) erase the journal (i.e. convert to ext2) tune2fs -o ^has_journal <your partition> 2) resize it as an ext2 partition 3) recreate the journal tunes2fs -j <your partition> Olive