Author: Tony Whitmore Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Debian "parted" partition resize and "File system
hasan incompatible feature enabled."
Imran Chaudhry wrote: > Hello LUGites, I'm having a frustrating time trying to resize a
> partition on my Debian Slug (etch).
>
> I have a disc with two partitions, a root partition that is 500Mb in
> size and /home which is 229Gb. Its an external USB2 HDD.
> The /usr and /var partitions on / are taking the bulk of the 95% full
> space and I had the idea of reducing /home by 50Gb and creating a new
> partition on which to mount both /usr and /var. All ext3 file systems.
>
> However, trying to resize the /home partition is proving troublesome.
>
> My steps are:
> a) log in as root, unmount /home
> b) run parted in interactive mode and start resize
> c) after supplying the start (768MB) and end (200GB) sizes I get the
> error: "File system has an incompatible feature enabled."
>
> So far I have tried various suggestions to no avail, these include
> using tune2fs to remove either the "dir_index" or the journal. I undid
> these operations when it was clear they didn't help.
