Bug#766799:

2014-11-01 Thread Dmitry Borisyuk
I dare reopen this, since the bug actually exists. Lowering severity, because this only occurs for a special cases. In summary, if the root filesystem was created with no resize inode, and is then resized, resize2fs adds meta_bg feature to it (the same can happen in some other cases, see ext4(5) m

Bug#766799: resizing root partition with resize2fs makes system unbootable

2014-10-27 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:37:47PM +0200, Dmitry Borisyuk wrote: > Thank you for the detailed explanation, > > Indeed, I intentionally created the filesystem with that features removed > (because something didn't work with the defaults, sadly it was long ago and I > don't remember the details).

Bug#766799: resizing root partition with resize2fs makes system unbootable

2014-10-26 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Can you check and see if this is completely repeatable? And can you do the following? 1) Send me exactly what resize2fs reported. 2) Send me the output of dumpe2fs /dev/sda1 before and after the resize2fs. 3) Also please confirm that you ran resize2fs /dev/sda1 while in the guest partition

Bug#766799: resizing root partition with resize2fs makes system unbootable

2014-10-25 Thread Dmitry Borisyuk
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.42.12-1 Severity: grave Dear Maintainer, Fortunately, this bug happened on a virtual machine, so I can repeat the experiment if needed. I have a virtual machine with a 1GB hdd and jessie installed on it. The hdd has only one partition which is /dev/sda1, and formatt