Parted 'incompatible feature'

[Robert]

Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Robert <kerplop at sbcglobal.net> said:
> 
>>(parted) resize 2 101.975 38903.5
>>Error: Filesystem has incompatible feature enabled
> 
> 
> parted 1.6.9 (in FC2) tells you that it can't handle ext2/3 filesystems
> with dir_index enabled.
> 
> You can:
>   umount /dev/xxx
>   tune2fs -O^dir_index /dev/xxx
>   parted
>   tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/xxx
>   e2fsck -D /dev/xxx
> 
> You don't have to do the e2fsck; the directories will be re-indexed on
> the fly IIRC, but you may just want to go ahead and do it rather than
> have the overhead later.

Thanks for the near-instantaneous reply. I'll try this later this 
evening and let you know how I make out.

After consulting man tune2fs, I follow what you're doing above. I remain 
mystified about the source of your information, though. I have FC3t1 
running on another box, it reports

[rj at clem rj]$ rpm -q parted
parted-1.6.11-2
[rj at clem rj]$

and I'll be double-dipped if I can find anything in its man page.

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