Re: How to non-destructively make ext2 filesystem recognized by parted?

[Andrew Clausen]

Ole Bøssing Christensen wrote:
> I booted from tomsrtbt, ran parted 1.4.11 from a floppy and tried to
> resize the existing very large (55GB) data partition, 24% full, to a
> smaller size as part of moving stuff around. After a very long time the
> program crashed with a register dump.

Parted doesn't crash with register dumps.  It sounds like the
KERNEL crashed.  It sounds like you have deeper problems than
what's on the disk... (read: bit rot == broken RAM, CPU, or
something)

Is it possible for you to run Parted from gdb, say?  When it
"freezes", you could then hit CTRL-C, and do a backtrace, etc.
to see what's going on.  (I suspect this is more bit-rot, though)

Andrew Clausen