Re: problems with parted1.4.1

[Joachim Heidemeier]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Andrew Clausen wrote:

> Joachim Heidemeier wrote:
> > 
> > Hallo,
> > I ran into 3 problems with parted 1.4.1 on suse-linux 6.3
> > 1) the bootdisk didn't work with my scsi-drive (simple NCR810 controller)
> > so as I wanted to resize the boot partition I tried to
> 
> Yeah, it doesn't support SCSI (yet) :-(
Isn't it better to provide a two disk system as it it used e.g with suse ?
then the kernel problems should be lss?
> 
> > 2) build a static version of parted  (a good idea IMHO). But the configure
> > stuff set the PARTED_LIBRARIES to "-lncurses -lreadline" giving unresolved
> > references in lreadline to lncurses. the two libs should be switched in
> > all makefiles.
> 
> Hmmm.  There's an --enable-all-static option.  Did you use that?
Yes. I was happy having seen this option in 1.4
> 
> > 3) after having built a full-static parted without readline (stripped size
> > 600 K)
> 
> Weird, it's only ~200k for me.  Did you enable optimizations?
> 
>       $ CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure ...
no.
> 
> > and running it on the suse rescue system I was able to move a
> > partitions but the program core-dumped with segmentation fault when I
> > wanted to resize a 3 GB-Partion to 4 G. Trying to resize less I was able
> > to resize it in 10-20 MB steps to 3070 MB but at the next attempt to 3090
> > M the program dumped again.
> 
> Ouch!
> 
> Were you resizing your root device?
yes
> 
> Can you please run dumpe2fs, and send the output (gzipped)?
> 
>       # dumpe2fs /dev/sda1[or whatever] | gzip > dumpe2fs.out
see attachment !
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> Andrew Clausen
> 
> 
Thanks again
joachim heidemeier
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