Hello,
On Thu, 5 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been making some tests with parted software lately.
Interesting observations.
No errors. Remounted the resized partition and checked again all files making md5sums of them. The data on the filesystem remained unchanged.
Please note, that "worked for me" doesn't necessarily mean it will work
for everybody. However I think the sparse_super feature is a very good candinate for this and you made the first and successful step to prove
this to be right.
In this case the problem can manifest, for instance, when one lost or corrupted his/her superblock and ext3 wants to recover it by using other ones however this would fail because an earlier parted ext3 resize incorrectly handled the sparse_super feature.
Making a ext3 filesystem with mkfs.ext3, and then using tune2fs -O ^sparse_super doesn't solve the problem, as parted will remain complaining about 'strange layout'.
e2fsck must be run after this. As the man page says:
After setting or clearing sparse_super and filetype filesystem
features, e2fsck(8) must be run on the filesystem to return the
filesystem to a consistent state. Tune2fs will print a message
requesting that the system administrator run e2fsck(8) if neces-
sary.Cheers,
Szaka
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