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Thread: Edit: Need help by resizing ext3 Partition w/o data loss!

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    Quote Originally Posted by wartiger
    Hey,

    thanks, yeah, I have no more free space. Hm, do you think the will add ext3-resizing support in the next versions of parted?
    It's not a problem with ext3 support, it's something with knoppix. When I created a new ext3 partition, parted could resize it but as soon as I put knoppix on it, it couldn't. The version of parted shipped with knoppix is a compact version, maybe the full version would work better but then how could you install it to the CD? You couldn't use klik, klik needs a persistent home which needs the HD & parted only works on an unmounted HD. Easiest I think would be for you to remove packages you don't need. Start with 'localepurge' and then 'apt-get remove kde-i18n*' which will free up about 100 Meg of extra language support.

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    ext3 resizing

    To resize ext3 partition with qtparted or parted on (unmounted) hda5 (for example) do this:

    tune2fs -O ^dir_index /dev/hda5

    tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda5

    resize with qtparted or parted, then

    tune2fs -O has_journal /dev/hda5

    tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/hda5

    Summary: Change ext3 to ext2, resize, then change ext2 back to ext3.

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    Re: ext3 resizing

    Quote Originally Posted by jdavid
    To resize ext3 partition with qtparted or parted on (unmounted) hda5 (for example) do this:

    tune2fs -O ^dir_index /dev/hda5

    tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda5

    resize with qtparted or parted, then

    tune2fs -O has_journal /dev/hda5

    tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/hda5

    Summary: Change ext3 to ext2, resize, then change ext2 back to ext3.
    I did that all and parted says: "Error: Filesystem has incompatible feature enabled.

    But now I can change the Size with qtparted, but it quits when doing it with an error.

    dump2fs:

    Code:
    Filesystem features:      ext_attr resize_inode filetype sparse_super large_file
    Some of these features seems to cause this problem... but which? And can I disable it without problems?

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    What I did was make a backup of the partition with partimage then delete and creat the new bigger partition.

    After reloading it with the partimage backup I ran ext2resizer and that expanded it to fill the whole partition.

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    Quote Originally Posted by firebyrd10
    What I did was make a backup of the partition with partimage then delete and creat the new bigger partition.

    After reloading it with the partimage backup I ran ext2resizer and that expanded it to fill the whole partition.
    I already tried that, but PartImage quitted with error.. :/
    I think the only way is to find out which feature doesn't work with parted and how I can disable it and enable it after the resizing again...

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    Can somebody tell me what I should do? Will I ever learn how to repair my partition?

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