Re: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout!

[Buttchereit, Axel (XL)]

Ryan Underwood wrote:
> GNU Parted 1.6.21 with HFS shrink patch 16
> Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public
> License.
> 
> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
> General Public License for more details.
> 
> Using /dev/hda
> (parted) p                                                                
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-194481.000 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.031   3804.455  primary   ntfs        hidden
> 2       3804.456   7632.443  primary               boot
> 3       7632.444  11436.899  primary               lba
> 4      11436.899 156327.824  extended              
> 5      11436.930  15249.199  logical               
> 6      15249.230  16206.196  logical   ext3        
> 7      16206.227  23838.640  logical   ext3        
> 8      23838.671  31471.083  logical   ext3        
> 9      31471.115  39103.527  logical   ext3        
> 10     39103.559  39260.412  logical   linux-swap  
> 11     39260.443 156327.824  logical   ext3        
> (parted) resize 11 39260 194481
> No Implementation: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout!
> Parted can't resize this (yet).
> 
> Any ideas?  On a Debian unstable machine.
> 

Have you tried to resize the extended partition (no. 4) first?

Cheers,
Axel