[got it back] Re: (1.4.24) parted resize lost ext3 partition . . .suggestions?

[Gary Akers]

I was able to recover the partition.  I was left a bit unnerved
by the apparently wrong "guesses" made by gpart, so I didn't
use it.   I deleted and recreated /usr with "fdisk" instead for
less risk to the other partitions,   but the recovery procedure
you suggested worked great.
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Then after editing /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab to adapt to the
minor-number reordering,   a few bad files were identified
with rpm -Va and replaced as needed.  Tue, I start over with
the original parted operation, but **unmounting the partition first**
this time.  I'll let you know how it works out.  It's Dell PowerEdge
hardware raid "aacraid.o I think."   . . .see ya Tue [GMT -5].
Merry Xmas!
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At 02:31 PM 12/23/02 +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 10:23:53PM -0500, Gary Akers wrote:
> > (1.4.24) parted resize lost ext3 partition  . . .suggestions?
> > I believe the partition is there, but my partition table says it is the new
> > smaller size and my superblock still says it is the old larger size.
> > Known error in procedure:   "didn't unmount the partition first"
>
> ouch.
>
> I would remove the partition, and "re-discover" it with gpart or
> parted 1.6.x.  Then run e2fsck.
>
> > see ya Monday
>
> ?
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew