Re: When resizing ext2/3 no information about the progress is provided

[Sven Luther]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:34:53PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> [Please keep the CC: to address@hidden
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I suppose that this is already a known bug, but just for any case.
> 
> Once I used the new debian installer to resize a ext3 file system (it is
> based on libparted).  The resizing operation completed successfuly but
> all the time the progress bar was at 0% so I didn't know when this quiet
> long operation will finish.
> 
> If you don't know what caused this, I will try to see if this bug still
> exists in the newest version of parted and provide you with more
> information.

There is no resize support for ext3, so d-i converts to an ext2 filesystem,
resizes that, and then reconverts to an ext3 filesystem. If i am not wrong.

Friendly,

Sven Luther