resize jfs, gparted and swap, problems

[Kaj Haulrich]

On 11/13/2013 12:44 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am running Kubuntu 10.04 and recently a doubled my RAM, so I thought
> to double my swap partition since I hibernate quite a lot.
>
> Kubuntu is running on an extended partition, one part is for the whole
> file system running jfs, the other is the swap partition:
> /dev/sda5            6494       29915   188130568+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda6           29915       30401     3908488+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
>
> So I boot a live CD, make sure that neither /dev/sda5 nor /dev/sda6 are
> mounted, swap is turned off, and I run gparted.
>
> I cannot resize /dev/sda5.
>
> Is this the fault of gparted or jfs is not designed this way.
>
> Any comments?

As far as I know, gparted needs to use swap in order to resize 
partitions, so why not try to enable swap while resizing?

Kaj Haulrich.
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