qtparted will let me resize and move my swap partition but not my other ext3 partitions... is there anything i can do to resize these without having to reformat (because i do not have anywhere to backup my files at the moment)

Not quite sure what you're trying to achieve, or
whether the issue is actually qparted related, and
not a problem of the underlying actual tool ...

Look here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/



Cheers,
Tink

im trying to shrink a ext3 partition however it wont work i recieve an error in parted too

Did you look at the table on parted's homepage?
Is the operation you're attempting (supposedly)
supported in it?


Cheers,
Tink

yes it does support partition resize of ext3 filesystems however in parted i recieve an error
Error: Filesystem has incompatible feature enabled

Are you trying to move the start cylinder while resizing?
It doesn't support that.


Cheers,
Tink

no i keep it the same
here is the actual output

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# parted
GNU Parted 1.6.9
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Using /dev/hda
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is
14589/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
(parted) resize
Partition number? 2
Start? [101.9751]?
End? [112447.1553]? 40000
Error: Filesystem has incompatible feature enabled

I'm posted this to a similar thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=parted+resize

I think parted is having some issues with ext2/ext3 partition resizing. It should be able to resize the partition but can't:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla...g.cgi?id=90894