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Re: quick question about ext2/3 resizing
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: quick question about ext2/3 resizing |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:59:09 +1000 |
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:19:06AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> i'm sure you've been asked this a million times, but i can't find the
> archives for this mailing list...
>
> i just used parted for the first time (to resize /var). it was quite
> easy to use. the only snag is that i couldn't get it to use the reiser
> libs. it kept complaining about about library version mismatch. my
> parted version is
>
> ii parted 1.6.2-1 The GNU Parted disk partition resizing progr
>
> and the reiser libs i installed is progsreiserfs-0.3.1-rc3.
Ah, right. Yura said he was going to send me a patch! Anyway, you
could try an earlier version of progsreiserfs...
> but anyway, that wasn't what i wanted to ask (i ended up making /var
> into an ext3 partition).
>
> keeping the filesystem start at the same location is a pretty dreadful
> constraint.
Agreed. However, you can use the move command.
> are there any future plans to allow parted to change the start of an
> ext2/3 partition? or is this just not possible for these filesystems?
It is possible, but it requires journalling for crash recovery (eg:
power failure). I've decided this is definitely worth doing...
it's a special case of a harder problem, which I'm currently thinking
about how to solve. (i.e. the convertfs problem. Yes, I am still
thinking about convertfs!)
Cheers,
Andrew