Non-destructively resize ext3 on PPC
b1smooth at yahoo.com
b1smooth at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 8 11:14:32 MST 2005
Hmm...Is it this problem
Quoted from the Qtparted hompage:
"Please note that this is will be a major release:
a lot of new features are included. A well know bug
happen when you try to work on a device "busy" (in
other word a device with a partition mounted). The
only thing that I can suggest you is to commit every
single operation, and reboot every time that you get
the "commit error". This is not a bug of QTParted! It
seems that the kernel is not able to re-read partition
table of busy device. I plan to make some work around
in the official 0.4, but of course I cannot do
miracles until kernel developers will be fix this
problem (and it seems that they don't want to do that
:( ).
I forget: you needs libparted 1.6.6 (or newer) to run
qtparted 0.4 !"
--- "Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D."
<joseph_sacco at comcast.net> wrote:
> OK... It's good to know that someone on the list
> really has used qtpartd
> tool extensively.
>
>
> BTW, I just pulled down qtpartd-0.44 and built it:
>
> global configuration
> --------------------
> system : "linux"
> PREFIX : "/usr"
> QTPARTED_LDFLAGS : ""
> QTPARTED_LIBS : ""
> QTDIR : "/usr/lib/qt-3.3"
> Qt translation compiler :
> "/usr/bin/lrelease"
>
>
> supported file systems (0=no, 1=yes)
> ------------------------------------
> ReiserFS : 0
> Ext2fs/ext3fs : 1
> Windows NTFS: : 0
> Ibm JFS: : 1
> Sgi XFS: : 1
>
>
> The build was uneventful. There appear to be some
> problems with the
> runtime.
>
> * start application in a terminal window
> - application comes up and finds all disks
>
> * select a disk
> Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the
> partition.
> A bug has been detected in GNU parted. Please email
> a bug report to
> bug-parted at gnu.org containing the version (1.6.6)
> and the following
> message:Assertion (!disk->update_mode) at disk.c:322
> in function
> ped_disk_destroy() failed.
>
>
> Thoughts???
>
> -Joseph
>
>
============================================================================
> On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 12:51, b1smooth at yahoo.com
> wrote:
> > I've used qtparted extensively on M$ boxes and
> linux
> > boxes. Qtparted can resize almost any
> > filesystem...ntfs...reiser..fat..ext2/3. It's
> really
> > what you're in the market for. I actually don't
> backup
> > my data(even though it's not wise). I just run the
> > prog and expand the partitions as needed. I have
> yet
> > to have any problems such as data loss in the 60
> or so
> > times I've use it.
> >
> > B1
> > --- "Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D."
> > <joseph_sacco at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Looks interesting... What are your experiences
> with
> > > this tool?
> > >
> > > -Joseph
> > >
> > >
> >
>
==============================================================
> > > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 12:05, b1smooth at yahoo.com
> > > wrote:
> > > > Use qtparted...gui based and very simple to
> use.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/screenshots.en.html
> > > >
> > > > --- "Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D."
> > > > <joseph_sacco at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Here's a thought:
> > > > > * plug in an external drive [USB, firewire]
> > > > > * use the external drive as a backup
> > > > > * do whatever you wish to the internal drive
> > > > >
> > > > > -Joseph
> > > > >
> ==============================================
> > > > > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 11:08, Cian Duffy
> wrote:
> > > > > > Laptop. Can't fit another HDD.....
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cian
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:00:05 -0800, Lewis
> > > Coleman
> > > > > <Coleman at tscnet.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > I would think the question should "Why
> > > should
> > > > > you resize a partition,
> > > > > > > when you can just buy another hard drive
> > > (cheap
> > > > > enough!!)?". I would
> > > > > > > not want to risk losing some of my files
> by
> > > > > resizing a partition (I bet
> > > > > > > all the software says "Be sure to back
> up
> > > all
> > > > > your files!).
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > WAIT!! I know why--Because we are all
> > > GEEKS!!
> > > > > (I may not resize, but
> > > > > > > I do stuff just as dangerous!)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Cowardly Lewis
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Friday, January 7, 2005, at 07:29
> PM,
> > > Felix
> > > > > Jodoin wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > > > > > > Hash: SHA1
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > You can, with tools from Micromat,
> > > > > SubRosaSoft, and FWB (Although
> > > > > > > > Partition Toolkit sucked, I bought it
> and
> > > it
> > > > > only worked once). I have
> > > > > > > > no clue how to use parted.. I kind of
> wish
> > > > > fdisk had partition
> > > > > > > > resizing built in.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > - -Felix
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On 7-Jan-05, at 6:31 PM, Cian Duffy
> wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >> Sorry, just realised the reason that
> > > > > /sbin/parted wasn't finding
> > > > > > > >> anything was I was on OSX. D'oh!
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >> Has anyone sucessfully used this
> tool? I
> > > > > presume you can't use it on
> > > > > > > >> the disk you're running off....
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >> Cian
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 00:26:39 +0000,
> Cian
> > > Duffy
> > > > > <myob87 at gmail.com>
> > > > > > > >> wrote:
> > > > > > > >>> On Intel, you can non-destructively
> > > resize
> > > > > ext3 partitions. I'd like
> > > > > > > >>> to experiment with (OS that shall
> rename
> > > > > unnamed) on my iBook, and
> > > > > > > >>> due
> > > > > > > >>> to using my OSX pretty heavily, I'd
> like
> > > to
> > > > > shave a few gigs from my
> > > > > > > >>> YDL partitions. Are there any tools
> for
> > > > > Linux that can be used to do
> > > > > > > >>> this, non-destructively?
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> Cian
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> --
> > > > > > > >>> ---------------------------
> > > > > > > >>> "We're busy running out of time"
> > > > > > > >>> Bernard Sumner, 1993
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >>
>
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