Parted

[Karl Larsen]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 19:20 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Well parted will not work either. 
>>     
>
> I can't remember to have used parted, but FWIW: have you looked under
> "Known Issues" in man parted?
>
> "KNOWN ISSUES
>        ext3 filesystem resizing does not currently work, please use
>        resize2fs(8) instead.
>
> Resizing  partitions  with  an  ext3 filesystem will not generally work
> because of the above issue.  Use resize2fs(8) to resize the filesystem
> and resize the partition manually using fdisk(8) or a similar tool.  For
> LVM situations, you will need to use the LVM commands to resize the LVM
> elements."
>
>
> 	I read man resize2fs
>  and it tells me to change the size of the underlieing partition first with fdisk. So I am back to this. The Extended partition is just a partition that is below the partitions that follow the Extended.

So back to fdisk.

Karl



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