Re: Bug?

[Matt Davis]

On 6/10/07, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> David Armstrong <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Not sure if this is a bug or not. I've just expanding a hardware raid
> > array to 3000GB and I'm trying to expand the partition table from 2250
> > to 3000GB. I'm getting an error when trying to expand it.
> >
> > GNU Parted 1.7.1
> > Using /dev/sda
> > Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
> > (parted) p
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda: 3000GB
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> > Partition Table: gpt
> >
> > Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name     Flags
> > 1      17.4kB  2250GB  2250GB  ext2         Storage
> >
> > (parted) resize 1 0 3000
> > Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
> > (parted)
>
> You're trying to resize your existing 2.25TB partition into
> a smaller, 3.0GB one.  Adding three more zeros should help:
>
>   resize 1 0 3000000
>
> Also, you might want to try a newer version of parted.

David,
I am interested to see if you have success resizing the ext2 partition
of such a size.  I was debugging a resizing issue about 2weeks ago.


-Matt