On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:42:19 +1200 howard blomfield wrote: >Nick wrote > >Howard's operating system previously known as SuSE certainly knows that > >qtparted is dangerous on reiserfs. > >
> > > > > i'd say that qtparted was an interesting piece of software, but before > > using to a: make sure you had the most recent version (not from last > years instalfest), & no matter what promises are made to always back up > your data files (thank goodness for "old" 40gb hard drives!!) > howard I would go further and say "don't use qtparted to shrink a reiserfs partition at all full stop end of story" - probably don't use it to enlarge them either. It uses a very outdated and unmaintained reiser library. For that reason gentoo at least builds qtparted without reiser support, I cannot speak for other distros. there are command line tools to resize reiser filesystems, you would then need to manually change the partition table to match the new filesystem size, something you do with trepidation given that making the partition just a little too small would probably screw the filesystem. Better still - backup, repartition, restore. Lesson learned, thanks for backing up your essentials Howard! -- Nick Rout
