Robert Locke wrote:
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
Thanks for the reply and the bugzilla URL. They sure sound related to
me. My new question is whether or not anyone has successfully attacked
one of the affected partitions with Partition Magic.
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