[ILUG] Resizing partitions

[Stephen Horgan]

>> Well parted can't do it:
>>
>> (parted) move
>> Partition number? 2
>> No Implementation: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout!
>> Parted can't resize this (yet).
>>
>> I'll try qtparted tonight when I get home.
> Have you actually tried temporarily removing journaling with tune2fs
> yet?
>
> tune2fs [-f] ^has_journal /dev/hdc2
> parted stuff
> tune2fs has_journal /dev/hdc2
>
> Be careful with trying any of these utilities, anything that messes with
> filesystems and partitions has inherent risks attached. From the tune2fs
> man page comes the warning:
> -f
> Force the tune2fs operation to complete even in the face of errors. This
> option is useful when removing the has_journal filesystem feature from a
> filesystem which has an external journal (or is corrupted such that it
> appears to have an external journal), but that external journal is not
> available.
> WARNING: Removing an external journal from a filesystem which was not
> cleanly unmounted without first replaying the external journal can
> result in severe data loss and filesystem corruption.
>
> Regards,
> Stephen
>
>

Yes, I tried converting to ext2 and then resizing, but this yields the
same result. I removed the journal with:

tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdc2

Then tried parted again:

(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-239372.437 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031  12997.902  primary   ext3        raid
2      38154.375 239366.931  primary   ext2
(parted) move
Partition number? 2
No Implementation: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout! 
Parted can't resize this (yet).