Re: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout!

[Ryan Underwood]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:44:54PM +1000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:13:10PM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> > > Have you tried to resize the extended partition (no. 4) first?
> 
> This isn't going to help.

I do need to resize it either through parted or through fdisk before I
can resize the logical partition through fdisk, though.

> > Unfortunately, since the root filesystem is inside the extended
> > partition, that's going to make it quite difficult, assuming I have to
> > unmount all the partitions inside the extended partition before
> > modifying the extended partition.  Is that correct?
> 
> No.  Parted should be able to resize this without any problems.  You
> just found a bug.  Thanks.

Do you have a patch?

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Ryan Underwood, <address@hidden>