Re: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout!

[Andrew Clausen]

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.

> (parted) resize 4 11436 194481                                            
> Error: Partition /dev/hda4 is being used.  You must unmount it before
> you modify it with Parted.
> 
> 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.

Andrew