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Re: unable to resize ext3 partition - thinks its ext2...


From: Andrew Clausen
Subject: Re: unable to resize ext3 partition - thinks its ext2...
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:36:52 +1100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.4i

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:04:53PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Eeek.  You shouldn't do that.
> 
> Well, parted supports resizing of ext3 disks which are in a clean state,
> since then they are ext2 compatible, right ? 
> 
> For more, we should move to libext2fs.
> 
> BTW, if he shouldn't ignore it, should this option not be provided ? 

Apparently not.  I thought such a harsh warning message would mean
users would make the right decision.  (I was concerned there might
be 'legitimate' cases where providing a strict policy would be
annoying)  Clearly, I was wrong.

Cheers,
Andrew





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