Attempting to resize /hda5 which has Knoppix 3.4 installed. Parted refuses & returns error message "This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout. Parted is unable to resize this (yet)."
Well, parted was never able to resize,end the end I had to delete hda5 & then create a new larger partition which of course meant that I had to do a gut & rebuild on my Knoppix installation.
I checked immediately after a new clean Knoppix style install & parted reported the 'strange layout' on the brand new install.
So what is strange about the Knoppix filesystem to cause this?