Re: problems with parted1.4.1

[Andrew Clausen]

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) :-(

> 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?

> 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 ...

> 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?

Can you please run dumpe2fs, and send the output (gzipped)?

        # dumpe2fs /dev/sda1[or whatever] | gzip > dumpe2fs.out

Thanks a lot!
Andrew Clausen