Re: Not able to move fat32 partition

[Ravi Desai]

Thanks. Here is the fat-start.img file.

Andrew Clausen wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 05:18:55PM -0400, Ravi Desai wrote:
>
>
> > Hello,
> >   I'm currently using parted 1.6.23, and I am not able to move my
> > fat32 partition. Here is the error message.
> >
> > ---
> > (parted) move 9 24703 25961
> > No Implementation: GNU Parted cannot resize this partition to this
> > size.  We're working on it!
>
> This probably means that the cluster size needs to be increased.
> This only happens if you try to increase the size of the file system.
I see, but this is the error message even with the 'move' command, and
not only the 'resize' command.

> > (parted) resize 9
> > Start?  [23442MB]? 23442
> > End?  [24701MB]? 25701
> > Error: Can't have the end before the start!
> > No Implementation: GNU Parted cannot resize this partition to this
> > size.  We're
> > working on it!
> > (parted)
> > ---
> >
> > I do not understand why it says the end that I have defined is before
> > the start.
>
> Me neither.  Could you please send the first 16k of your file system?
> (This is mainly to determine the cluster size.)  You can do this with:
>
>         dd if=/dev/hda9 of=fat-start.img bs=16k count=1
>
> I found an unrelated bug while looking... can someone else fix it please?
> In command_line_get_sector(), the default case does not set the range.
> This causes segfaults.
Heh, :) It's good to have been of help :D.

Thanks,
ravster.

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