On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 21:57, Robert wrote: > Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Robert <kerplop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > > >>After consulting man tune2fs, I follow what you're doing above. I remain > >>mystified about the source of your information, though. > > > > > > When I ran FC2 parted to resize a partition a week or two ago, it said > > that the problem was the dir_index option, and I happened to still > > remember it when I saw your email. :-) > > Thanks again for remembering but I have yet the experience the "Thrill > of victory". I tried the sequence you spelled out without success and > decided it just might be the version of parted and/or tune2fs available > in FC1. For the record, that's parted 1.6.3-31 and tune2fs 1.34 > (25-Jul-2003). So, I got out my trusty FC2 rescue CD and booted this > machine from it. (Skipped network setup, skipped mounting / fs on > /mnt/sysimage.) This gives me tune2fs 1.35 (28 Feb 2004) and GNU parted > 1.6.9 to work with and I got the same results. First I tried tune2fs \ > -O ^dir_index /dev/hdb2 then tried the same command on the /boot part > (hdb1) too. Parted complained, either way, with the same msg as before. > > I'm thinking that the tune2fs command isn't doing anything because when > I theoretically restored the dir_index for the two partitions, any delay > before the bash prompt returned was imperceptable. > > Y'know, since removing the rescue CD and rebooting to FC1, I thought of > something else that's not exactly normal. When I loaded FC2 onto that > drive, I unplugged the pri master drive to be damn certain that any > misunderstanding 'tween Anaconda and I would cost nothing but time. > Therefore GRUB was installed on the pri slave drive. > I wonder if that's spoiling my party... That's for tomorrow. I do not know if this is related, but perhaps the following bugzilla report applies: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90894 This has been continuing into RHEL3 and FC1 last I checked. Not sure about FC2, but some interesting comments that may apply... --Rob
