On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:33 PM, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Guys, > > I'm experiencing a partitioning issue with parted in CentOS 4.6, I have an > external drive that I want to resize using parted, it has two partitions > hdd1 and hdd2 and I want to resize hdd1 from 321GB to 700GB and reduced hdd2 > from 321GB to 15GB. Here's what I did: > > # parted /dev/hdd > (parted) p > Disk geometry for /dev/hdd: 0.000-715404.867 megabytes > Disk label type: msdos > Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags > 1 0.031 333795.871 primary ext3 > 2 333795.872 715402.375 primary ext3 > > I removed partition 2: > (parted) rm 2 > > I then created a new partition (shrunk the original partition 2 to make way > for partition 1 increase): > (parted) mkpart primary ext3 700000 715000 > > (parted) print > Disk geometry for /dev/hdd: 0.000-715404.867 megabytes > Disk label type: msdos > Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags > 1 0.031 333795.871 primary ext3 > 2 699996.292 715002.319 primary > > As you can see I've freed some space, then I resize partition 1 with: > (parted) resize 1 0.031 698000 > Error: Filesystem has incompatible feature enabled > > I've also tried another this: > (parted) mkpartfs primary ext3 700000.00 715402.375 > No Implementation: Support for creating ext3 file systems is not > implemented yet. > > Am I doing it all wrong? Do any of you guys encountered this before? If yes > what is the workaround? I've already googled to no avail. > Changing the partition table is just half the story. You need to resize the filesystem as well. Parted can not resize ext3 filesystems automatically as the error says. You need to do it manually from outside of parted. You need to convert to ext2. Then resize with ext2resize. Then convert back to ext3. I suggest Googling for more howtos on the matter as this is a delicate operation. You might want to consider LVM + Raid in the future. It will make your life easier. Holden
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