Re: [Hampshire] Re: Debian "parted" partition resize and "Fi…

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Author: Adrian Bridgett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Re: Debian "parted" partition resize and "File system has an incompatible feature enabled."
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 13:34:09 +0000 (+0000), Imran Chaudhry wrote:
> Thanks your replies guys. Knowing about debugfs really helped.
>
> The features I needed to get rid of were:
>
> ROOT@myslug:/var/log# debugfs -w /dev/sda3
> debugfs:    feature -resize_inode
> debugfs:  feature -dir_index

[snip]
> Of course, the most desirable thing would be to resize / by 50Gb but
> one cannot resize a mounted partition. I read about solutions that


Well you can - but only currently to _grow_ it, not to shrink it.

And to do grow it online you need resize_inode :-) And if you don't
have that set, well you can set it on (but only when the filesystem is
unmounted, but at least that will help the _next_ time):

http://www.smop.co.uk/mediawiki/index.php/Resizing_Debian_sarge_filesystems

Adrian
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