Disk Partiotioning

[Robert]

C. Linus Hicks wrote:

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> Actually, this won't solve your problem with QTparted. It doesn't
> support resizing ext3 or ext2 filesystems. And from playing around with
> parted, I think you would run into "Filesystem has incompatible feature
> enabled" errors if you tried using it.

Because, as I learned a few months ago, the filesystem was created with 
"sparse superblocks", which is the default behavior.  A workaround is to 
always include -O ^sparse_super in the options string for mke2fs. The 
partition will then be resizable by parted, qtparted or Partition Magic. 
A bit more disk space is consumed in overhead but at today's storage 
costs, I really couldn't care less.  YMMV

> 
> I think your best bet on resizing is my original suggestion. Use
> resize2fs to resize the filesystem, then use fdisk to resize the
> partition.
>