Re: Resizing ext3

[Andrew Clausen]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:44:29PM -0700, Anand Panangadan wrote:
>   This question has been answered before (on this
> mailing list), but it seems the parted webpage says
> something else:
> Can parted resize ext3 partitions (assuming that I am
> not changing the START position)? When I try to do
> this on an unmounted ext3 partition on Redhat 9
> (parted 1.6.3), I get "No implementation: this ext2
> filesystem has a rather strange layout!". But the GNU
> parted webpage indicates that ext3 resizing is
> possible.

This is not an ext3-related problem.  It's probably due to some
raid stride option, which Parted can't cope with.  See the
mke2fs manpage... look for the -R option.

Cheers,
Andrew