GNU parted and ext3

2002-01-12 Thread Calyth
It seems that they don't mix well. Here's the problem. I want to resize the FAT and ext3 partition on my laptop because FAT is truly fatter than the ext3 and linux actually could use a bit more space. So I wanted to do fair game and manage to shrink the FAT partition. Somehow parted cannot

Re: GNU parted and ext3

2002-01-12 Thread Martin Fluch
I know how to put the journal back on but anyone knows how to remove the journal safely? mount the partition as ext2 (!) at /some/mount/point and then rm /some/mount/point/.journal That should do the trick. Martin

Re: GNU parted and ext3

2002-01-12 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Martin Fluch wrote on Sat Jan 12, 2002 um 11:16:29AM: mount the partition as ext2 (!) at /some/mount/point and then rm /some/mount/point/.journal That should do the trick. NO. THIS IS A RUDE HACK AND SHOLD NOT BE DONE. Instead, do tune2fs -O^has_journal /dev/device

Re: GNU parted and ext3

2002-01-12 Thread David B Harris
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:13:18 -0800 Calyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that they don't mix well. Here's the problem. I want to resize the FAT and ext3 partition on my laptop because FAT is truly fatter than the ext3 and linux actually could use a bit more space. So I wanted to do fair

Re: GNU parted and ext3

2002-01-12 Thread Calyth
Well I do have another tool Partition Magic residing on the otherside of the dual boot, The problem is that it couldn't move the partition either... it thinks the ext2 is full. All it could do is to delete the partition, which would be the last thing on earth that I wanted to do. Calyth