All,

I am stuck changing a ext3 partiction on FC5. I have tried Patiction Magic and (qt)parted. Partiction Magic gets confused and simply stops. (qt)parted goes furthor, however it errors with an "unsupported features" message.

This is a one partition disk. I simply want to add a second partition.

Thanks - Dan

Are you trying to do this from within a running system? I don't think you can do that.

I would think parted should be able to handle this if you have booted it from a floppy or CD, so that your hard drive is not in use when you attempt the change.

Thank you . No the disk is not mounted. Parted can't even do a simple fsck equilivant.

I just thought you might be interested to know that I just successfully used the floppy based version (distro?) of parted (partboot.img & partroot-1.6.6.gz) to resize an ext3 partition w/o a problem.

It is a rather primitive text based environment (w/o even tab completion!), but it has a number of the basic commands that might be useful including e2fsck, dumpe2fs, tune2fs, fdisk, and of course parted. Many of these are (probably) abbreviated versions implemented through crunchbox (similar to busybox). While it lacks my beloved less command , it does have the more command. It does not have a command called fsck, but it does have e2fsck, fsck.ext2, and fsck.ext3.

Hope this helps. Remember to reinstall your bootloader using chroot after resizing!