Hello, Tyring to alter my existing root partition to clear up some free space at the end. I've been following the guide from http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Windows_after_Gentoo. It's a 200GB drive using the handbooks default partitioning scheme where root=hda3 formatted with ext3.
Things seem to be fine when removing the jounaling from the ext3 filesystem: tune2fs -O^has_journal /dev/hda3. But when I try to resize with ext2resize I get the following error: ext2resize v1.1.17 - 2001/3/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b ext2resize: ext2_open: fs has unsupported feature(s) enabled: compat 20ext2resize: can't open /dev/hda3. I tried the -f(force) option in ext2resize -yes I realize that could have been a disaster- and ext2resize did indeed alter my partition to the new desired block size and converted back to ext3 with no problems. However, when I go to fdisk to create the new partition at the end of the drive where I *should* have free space, I get an error saying that I have no more unallocated sectors. Don't get it, I just made 60GB of free space, where did it go? I gave up and rebooted back into my machine and indeed, all tools report that my former 180GB /root partition is now 120GB. But, I can't use the free space, no tool that I've tried will see that I've got 60GB of free space at the end of my drive. Hmmm. So I guess this is two questions: what can I do about the above error from ext2resize and how can I now make use of my newly created free space when no tool seems to be able to see it??? Thanks very much for your help. -- Will Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] mailing list
