Parted

[Karl Larsen]

David Fox wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>>    Well parted will not work either. It sure seems from the man pages
>>     
>
> Never used that - good old fdisk for me :)
>
> Would be helpful to know what exactly went wrong, too - was a bug report filed?
>
>   
    I like fdisk too. but it will not do what I need. The problem with 
parted is this:
                    
                     resize partition start end
                     resize the filesystem on partition to start at 
start  and
                     end at end megabytes

I got the proper number of megabytes for /dev/sda4 and then used resize 
and it displayed the error that the end was out-side the hard drive. 
This is just not the case. The hard drive has about 100 GB of free space.

And /dev/sda4 is a Extended partition that fdisk failed to do what I 
asked it to do. I recall exactly what I did. When making this partition 
I allowed it to use the entire remaining 100 GB of space. I didn't 
expect it to change. But in the same setup I made the /dev/sda5 and 6 
and saved the setup. Alas I didn't look because in saving the setup 
fdisk changed /dev/sda4 to include only /dev/sda5 and 6.

There was no way for me to make that exact cut-off at the end of /dev/sda6.

It might be a problem with big hard drives. And no I have not fined a 
bug report but will after some additional testing.

Karl




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