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

["Chiu, PCM (Peter) " <P C M Chiu rl ac uk>]

Thanks, Ivan, for the pointing to the discussions and the bugzilla report.

I start wondering whether this fault will ever be dealt with since it was
raised under RH 9.  I thought RH EL is a properly supported platform.

Peter

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


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>


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