On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 19:25, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > I tried qtparted. Is anyone here using it with FC1? > > qtparted is still in the testing repository on fedora.us -> > http://www.fedora.us/pkglists/fedora-1-testing.html. So I think it did > not already pass quality management. Well, ok then. However i do need something to resize and move partitions. Any advice? > > I tried to install RH9 rpm packages (qtparted and all the necessary > > programs to dela with various filesystems - on qtparted rpm's website, > > RH9 rpms are reported to work well on FC1...). They got correctly > > installed but qtparted doesn't work: it fires up its gui but > > won't resize anything. A popup error message shows up, but it > > doesn't contain any text so it is not really helpful. > > If i launch qtparted from command prompt, i see some error messages: > > > > [root@localhost root]# qtparted > > No Implementation: Support for opening ntfs file systems is not implemented yet. > > On http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/features.en.html you can see, that > NTFS partitions are supported, but see the notes there. You might lack > mkntfs and ntfsresize. Unfortunately this is not the case. I installed ntfsprogs and mkntfs and ntfsresize are in their place. I can mount and read ntfs filesystem too. Moreover, qtparted seems to be strangely unable to manage ext3 partitions as well. > > Error: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted! You should e2fsck. Modifying an u > > nclean filesystem could cause severe corruption. > > Run e2fsck as you are told to do. Running a resizer on a partition which > may contain faults you highly risk to damage it unrepairable. > > > Error: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted! You should e2fsck. Modifying an u > > nclean filesystem could cause severe corruption. > > Seems you have 2 of these partitions. If these partitions are ext3 > formatted use fsck.ext3 instead. > > > I checked all filesystems and they look good. > > Hm, you did that while they were unmounted, like booted in rescue mode? Of course i didn't check a mounted filesystem! :) My point was different: qtparted claims those partitions were not cleanly unmounted. But it is wrong: they were cleanly unmounted and they all passed the check. I have all the stuff it needs to manage ntfs partitions, but it doesn't. I made some test with parted, and i got similar errors. For instance, parted refuse to resize and move ext3 partitions. So probably the problem is to be tracked down to parted itself. I am not sure, but parted should indeed be able to resize and move ext3 partitions, isn't it? What could i do now? Thanks E.
