Re: creating filesystem on huge disks in RHEL3

[Stephen Gardner <stephen-rhel uk org>]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

> Now I'm wondering if I can safely use parted under RHEL4 to resize that
> ext3 filesystem and recover the ~70G that RHEL3 couldn't get its arms
> around the first time. There seem to be extended attribute issues
> standing in my way. See Bugzilla #152301.

I'm not sure about the involvement of parted but it's worth looking at the 
output (if you haven't already) from

tune2fs -l /dev/i2o/hdb1
[ taken from your bz report ]

The "Filesystem features" line may give some hits (and that output is 
probably worth adding to the bugzilla report).

Having just had a look again I think there may be a problem in your parted 
command line.

# parted /dev/i2o/hdb1 check

I think should be

# parted /dev/i2o/hdb check 1

[ it's  [device] check [partition-on-device] ]

See the following link(s) for a discussion of the problem you encountered. 
It seems that parted is cautious and that if the sparse_super filesystem 
feature is enabled it won't run a check.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-August/msg01462.html
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https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-July/msg05146.html

Regards,
    Stephen