Re: problems with parted1.4.1

[Andrew Clausen]

Joachim Heidemeier wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> 
> > Joachim Heidemeier wrote:
> > >
> > > Hallo,
> > > I ran into 3 problems with parted 1.4.1 on suse-linux 6.3
> > > 1) the bootdisk didn't work with my scsi-drive (simple NCR810 controller)
> > > so as I wanted to resize the boot partition I tried to
> >
> > Yeah, it doesn't support SCSI (yet) :-(
> Isn't it better to provide a two disk system as it it used e.g with suse ?
> then the kernel problems should be lss?

Yes.  Basically, I want a system that is easy for me to maintain,
and is easy to modify.  So, perhaps I should recommend a
distribution's rescue disks, and just provide an image for a second
root disk.

Also, with a second disk, there would be room for more fancy stuff,
like internationalization, readline, etc.

> > > and running it on the suse rescue system I was able to move a
> > > partitions but the program core-dumped with segmentation fault when I
> > > wanted to resize a 3 GB-Partion to 4 G. Trying to resize less I was able
> > > to resize it in 10-20 MB steps to 3070 MB but at the next attempt to 3090
> > > M the program dumped again.
> >
> > Ouch!
> >
> > Were you resizing your root device?
> yes
> >
> > Can you please run dumpe2fs, and send the output (gzipped)?
> >
> >       # dumpe2fs /dev/sda1[or whatever] | gzip > dumpe2fs.out
> see attachment !

I can't think of anything obvious.  At that size, you don't need
to grow the group descriptors.  I can't think of anything special
about 3070Mb (or 384 block groups)

Would you be able to compile with debug info, and send me the
core? (!!!)

Lennert: any ideas?

Thanks!
Andrew Clausen