Shrinking a ext3 partition

Radicalm16 · 01-20-2003, 05:11 PM

Using GNU parted I shrank my /usr partition, when I rebooted my computer, RedHat (I was using and still using RedHat 7.3) gave a error message saying something like: error on /dev/hda2, is corrupted or has a wrong size. I installed all my operating system again, but now I want reseize again the partition (only 'cos I want do it successfully

) without error giving.

Which step did I miss?

What have I to do after the GNU parted resizing?

I'll appreciate your help, Thnx.

Radicalm16

bulliver · 01-20-2003, 05:37 PM

Did you write the new partition table to disk before rebooting? Does partd do it for you?

Radicalm16 · 01-20-2003, 08:47 PM

I don't think so...

I've read the parted documentation and dont said anything about it...

Could you tell me a way to do this???

Radicalm16

bulliver · 01-20-2003, 09:48 PM

Well, usually it gets done when using fdisk or cfdisk. I am guessing that you are getting these errors because the partition table for your HD do not match reality...

After you use partd, fire up fdisk and see what it says. If it reports your changes correctly then write them to disk(type 'm' for options and commands). Otherwise I am out of ideas.

Good Luck.

Radicalm16 · 01-21-2003, 09:37 PM

Well... I used parted to resize, later I try to do "fdisk -R" but this told me to use e2fsck to repair my partion, but it told me that in the repair process It could do damage to my partion, then I used a parted option to make a new partition label and...

I messed it Up....

So... Im now reinstalling Linux....

It was a good attemp.

the next time I'll have a better luck.

Thnx for everything.