Re: quick question about ext2/3 resizing

[Andrew Clausen]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:19:06AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> i'm sure you've been asked this a million times, but i can't find the
> archives for this mailing list...
> 
> i just used parted for the first time (to resize /var).  it was quite
> easy to use.  the only snag is that i couldn't get it to use the reiser
> libs.  it kept complaining about about library version mismatch.  my
> parted version is
> 
> ii  parted         1.6.2-1        The GNU Parted disk partition resizing progr
> 
> and the reiser libs i installed is progsreiserfs-0.3.1-rc3.

Ah, right.  Yura said he was going to send me a patch!  Anyway, you
could try an earlier version of progsreiserfs...

> but anyway, that wasn't what i wanted to ask (i ended up making /var
> into an ext3 partition).
> 
> keeping the filesystem start at the same location is a pretty dreadful
> constraint.

Agreed.  However, you can use the move command.

> are there any future plans to allow parted to change the start of an
> ext2/3 partition?  or is this just not possible for these filesystems?

It is possible, but it requires journalling for crash recovery (eg:
power failure).  I've decided this is definitely worth doing...
it's a special case of a harder problem, which I'm currently thinking
about how to solve.  (i.e. the convertfs problem.  Yes, I am still
thinking about convertfs!)

Cheers,
Andrew