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From: | Yury Umanets |
Subject: | Re: quick question about ext2/3 resizing |
Date: | Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:34:36 +0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 |
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
Right version is progsreiserfs-0.3.0.3.tar.gz on http://reiserfs.osdn.org.ua or http://reiserfs.linux.kiev.uahi andrew!begin Andrew Clausen <address@hidden>On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:19:06AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:i'm sure you've been asked this a million times, but i can't find the archives for this mailing list... i just used parted for the first time (to resize /var). it was quite easy to use. the only snag is that i couldn't get it to use the reiser libs. it kept complaining about about library version mismatch. my parted version is ii parted 1.6.2-1 The GNU Parted disk partition resizing progr and the reiser libs i installed is progsreiserfs-0.3.1-rc3.Ah, right. Yura said he was going to send me a patch! Anyway, you could try an earlier version of progsreiserfs...ai, chihuahua. i didn't know "which direction" i should go in trying out a new version of progsreiserfs -- upgrade or downgrade. i wasn't sure whether i had to hit "the right version" or "a range of right versions" if you get my drift.
About new version. I'm hope to ship out progsreiserfs-0.3.1 (with smart resizing, bug fixes and some features) soon. And after it will be done, I'm goind to start work on progsreiserfs-1.0 (full featured fsck, and big architecture improvements)
are there any future plans to allow parted to change the start of an ext2/3 partition? or is this just not possible for these filesystems?It is possible, but it requires journalling for crash recovery (eg: power failure). I've decided this is definitely worth doing... it's a special case of a harder problem, which I'm currently thinking about how to solve. (i.e. the convertfs problem. Yes, I am still thinking about convertfs!)heh. linux is just getting more and more featureful. that's cool! reiserfs won the "first journaling system in the linus kernel without a patch" award, so i converted all the partitions of all my systems to reiserfs. that took well over 24 hours when you include the time to make backups. then, a few months ago i found there's no corresponding "debugfs" for reiser partitions. i found this out after deleting an important file and debugfs told me it couldn't read reiser partitions. doh! so then i started to switch all my partitions back to ext3 (by this time, ext3 support appeared in the unpatched linus kernels). i like being able to undelete my files if i have to. convertfs would be a very welcome program! almost as welcome as lifting that parted constraint. ;-) thanks for the reply (and the software!) pete
-- Yury Umanets
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