Actually, about an hour ago I fixed it (Atleast I think its fixed).
I was using parted version 1.2.3 actually.
What I think happened was it resized the filesystem (made it fill to the
end of the harddrive) and updated the superblock but it didn't update the
partition table. So after lots of messing around I just "rm <partition
number>" "mkpart logical ext2 <begining of the partition> <end of
drive>" rebooted and it was fixed.
I'm not sure if I got the problem in the first place by something I did
wrong or a bug in 1.2.3.
Thanks anyways ;)
= Adam =
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> What version of Parted did you use? I assume it's 1.2.4 - the problems
> you are having are due to a rather sever bug that was in 1.2.4.
>
> I'm going to have to think very hard about how to fix your file system!
>
> Basically: the Parted set your partition to be bigger than your disk.
> So your some of your file system exists in thin air (i.e. it doesn't
> exist).
>
> Lennert: can we just use the ext2 resizer to shrink the file system
> back into reality? Obviously, we need to remove error checking,
> when reading in the partition table. This is no problem (I'll release
> a special version for this job)
>
> Adam: do you have a spare hard disk?
>
> Adam Wendt wrote:
> > Heres what my drive was like before resizing (and still is after trying to
> > resize (didn't give me any errors at the time)
> >
> > Disk geometry: 0-3098.8 megabytes
> > Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> > 1 0.0 7.9 primary ext2 boot
> > 2 7.9 3098.8 extended
> > 5 7.9 1425.4 logical ext2
> > 6 1425.4 1673.4 logical linux-swap
> > 7 1673.5 2705.1 logical ext2
> >
> > I had had another partition (8) at the end but deleted it now what I
> > wanted to do was resize 7 to fill up the whole space so i ran "resize 7
> > 1673.5 3098.8" it took a few seconds then returned to the
> > (parted) prompt. Now when I run e2fsck I get this:
> >
> > The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 294912 blocks
> > The physical size of the device is 264088 blocks
> > Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!
> >
> > And I've noticed that sometimes when I create files they dissapear after a
> > few seconds or a few minutes.
> >
> > Could anyone help me get this fixed this? If theres any more information
> > you would need to help me I'll be more than happy to provide it.
>
> We should be able to fix it. But I recommend you stop using that
> partition for now :-/
>
> Andrew Clausen
>
>
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