Re: Parted is telling me something. What does it mean?

[Andrew Clausen]

"Robert E. Harvey, M.D." wrote:
> I got parted to actually start up, but I'm getting some messages that
> concern me and solicit any help available.  I'm running Red Hat Linux
> 7.1 on a SCSI system.  On giving the command:
> 
> # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./parted
> 
> I get the message:  bus error (core dumped)

Ouch!   Probably some library incompatibility issue (?)
(Anyone know?  I'm rather ignorant about this stuff!)

> I'm practicing using parted on a scsi machine at home in order to
> hopefully do some surgery on a similar machi ne at work.  I want to grow
> my / partition into a /data partition.  There's no data in the /data
> partition so I'm not worried about losing anything there.
> What do I do now?

Well, you didn't say which partitions are being used for what.
df output or /etc/fstab contains this mapping ;-)

Also, ext2 doesn't support resize-the-start, so shrinking one
ext2 partition, and growing another into the freespace won't
work (one of those operations will involve "moving the start")

So, you have to resort to tricks like copying partitions around,
or linux-swap, etc.

Andrew Clausen