This is apparently a rather common problem, as I keep receiving messages
about this every few weeks. Here's the latest:
Michael Monnerie wrote:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-parted@gnu.org/msg02631.html
Did you ever resolve this? How?
I solved the problem for writing my own program for reading and writing
GPT labels. With that it was pretty straight-forward to repartition,
even though one had to edit the source code to do any changes.
http://zi.fi/software/gptedit-0.0.1.tar.bz2
Run the program to see the current GPT info, then add lines to set new
values at the line marked // TODO: operations here. Run the program and
it will display the old data, then it'll do the changes and perform some
consistency checks to verify them and print the new data. It will then
ask for confirmation before writing anything to disk.
Before writing this program I tried inspecting parted source code to see
if it could be fooled into resizing the partition without touching the
XFS or if it could use external xfsgrow tool, but unfortunately the
source code was too abstract and I had to give up.
Hopefully someone adds this feature, as there clearly is need for it...
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