Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't grow ext4 partition with GParted running from USB

2019-05-17 Thread Narcis Garcia
El 16/5/19 a les 18:20, stry...@disintermedia.net.nz ha escrit: > Narcis Garcia: >> If you format in Ext4 with Trisquel 8, you will not have metadata_csum. > > But format in Ext4 with Trisquel 8 (or 7) is exactly what I did! Is it > possible this was added somehow when I deleted the swap partition

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't grow ext4 partition with GParted running from USB

2019-05-16 Thread xliang9550
Don't forget that Trisquel 8 is based on Ubuntu 16.04 so its packages are, to some extent, outdated. Whereas many improvements to the e2fsck can have happened within the recent 3 years. By contrast, the GParted Live is built on Debian sid (unstable) so it's packages are very new. However, i

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't grow ext4 partition with GParted running from USB

2019-05-16 Thread strypey
Narcis Garcia: > If you format in Ext4 with Trisquel 8, you will not have metadata_csum. But format in Ext4 with Trisquel 8 (or 7) is exactly what I did! Is it possible this was added somehow when I deleted the swap partition or created the swap file on that partition? How can I test whether

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't grow ext4 partition with GParted running from USB

2019-05-15 Thread Narcis Garcia
El 15/5/19 a les 9:04, stry...@disintermedia.net.nz ha escrit: > Narcis Garcia: >> You have here a guide to remove unsupported feature (metadata_csum) from > a mounted partition > > Thanks for the link, but what is "metadata_csum" and if I remove it, > what are the potential consequences for my ex

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't grow ext4 partition with GParted running from USB

2019-05-15 Thread strypey
Magic Banana: > guess the system that made the filesystem had a newer version of Linux (which includes the code for the filesystems) than Trisquel 8. Nope. The system that made the filesystem was either a Trisquel 8 boot USB, or maybe even a Trisquel 7 one. > Try from a live GNU/Linux syst

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't grow ext4 partition with GParted running from USB

2019-05-13 Thread xliang9550
As suggested by the output: You need a newer version of e2fsck. If you were using a Live media of Trisquel, try to download its deb package from Debian's main (libre) repository, either testing or unstable, and then use # dpkg -i to install it. Hopefully you don't need to update its depende

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't grow ext4 partition with GParted running from USB

2019-05-13 Thread Narcis Garcia
You have here a guide to remove unsupported feature (metadata_csum) from a mounted partition, booting from affected OS: https://wiki.openvz.org/Installation_on_Debian_9 After this, you'll can use Trisquel 8 for desired actions over this modern Ext4 partition. El 13/5/19 a les 13:25, stry...@disi

[Trisquel-users] Can't grow ext4 partition with GParted running from USB

2019-05-13 Thread strypey
I have been using GParted to try to resize the primary root partition (ext4) on Bishop (my 32-bit laptop), increasing it by about 2GB into free space to the right of it (as visualized by GParted). I've tried it with a Flidas live USB and with a Flidas system I installed to a USB. In both case