Re: parted under RHEL and FC2 - does it work?

[Ivan Pechorin <ivan pechorin com>]

Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote:

> So could it be parted not supporting resizing in general, or just specific
> to my ext3 file system on a 200GB partition?

If you do mke2fs -O sparse_super and have a large enough partition
(several GB) on any recent Linux, it'll fail with the same message.
Currently, the sparse_super feature is turned on by default (unless
mke2fs is run on a system with a pre-2.2 Linux kernel). It seems like
any ext2/ext3 filesystems created during the installation procedure of
recent RedHat/Fedora Linux versions cannot be resized using parted.

See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-06/msg00072.html
and http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90894

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Ivan Pechorin <ivan pechorin com>