On lör, 2004-09-25 at 13:01 -0500, Robert wrote: > Kent Nyberg wrote: > > 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. > Its tune2fs you meen? It seems strange running mke2fs on an already existing fs, or? I might get you wrong here.. So I'l read up on the manuals before. The exampel i saw last night used tune2fs.. > -- Kent Nyberg <nyberg.kent@xxxxxxxx>
