Hello to you all,
When i first set up this computer i thought i would need a windows partition, so i took 27gb of my 80gb drive and devoted them to a vfat- partition. Now i have no use for windows and that partition. I could always just use mkfs to create an ext3-partition there, but i want to resize my main ext3-partition to include that space. I deleted the vfat and booted with the Fedora rescue-cd.
I made sure that no parition i would use is mounted, and started parted. Now, when i try to either move or resize i get a message about "filesystem has incompatible features enabled". What are these features, and how do i disable them? I cant tell what kernel i created my ext3-partition with, although it might be Fedore 1 or something. Lat night i read a bit of the parted mailinglist and it seems that 'tune2fs -O ^dir_index /dev/partition' is needed to disable one of the features parted does not work with, but that did not help, i still got the message about incompatible features.
Can some one enlighten me about this?
I went 'round & 'round with this one a few months ago. Partition Magic won't work either. You can read about the problem at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-05/msg00048.html
What I finally did was to copy everything off that drive and start from scratch.
In a nutshell, parted can't deal with the results of using the "sparse_super" option in mke2fs. Unfortunately, that option is the default. To turn it off,
mke2fs -O ^sparse_super /dev/hdX
with whatever other options you want. **Note the "^"**!
If you're curious, try the mke2fs command WITH the -n option and with and without the -O above and marvel at the difference in the number of superblocks produced.
