On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 22:05, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > > > I tried qtparted. Is anyone here using it with FC1? [snip] > > Moreover, qtparted seems to be strangely unable to manage ext3 > > partitions as well. > > >From features list it is able to handle proper. This is the point. I can't figure out why it refuses to manage ext3 partitions. And so, i get back to my original question: was anybody on this list able to use qtparted and resize/move/copy at all some NTFS or ext3 partition? Just to know whether this is my own problem, something weird related to my system (in such case i would go for a fresh install) or rather it is a common problem and maybe i can use some other tool, possibly with a GUI (i find it very boring to resize a partition using a text base command, since i have to make some computations to get the desired values for partitions size), to resize move and copy some partitions on my FC1 system. I know, of course, that PartitionMagic could be a answer. However, i really don't want to use *any* windows tools (only as a really *last* resort) and i'd like to test and 'learn' some linux specific tool for the purpose. [snip] > > > > 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! :) > > Good! Excluded that point too. > > > 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? > > See the limitations on http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html > [if you not did that already]. I saw the limitations, once again. ;) Those limitations are ok. I am perfectly inside: i was trying to copy a 500 Mb ext3 partition on a 1Gb empty ext3 partition. I got the same error message redarding 'strange layout of ext2 partition'. Has anybody seen such a error message with parted before? Is anybody using it? > For special parted/qtparted problems and bugs I think it is worth to > check the tools's mailinglist. Sure. But i'd like, before to do such a thing, to get some feedback by users on this list. However, it seems that nobody has really used qtparted nor parted...at least nobody sent a mail saying 'works great to me'. E.
