Re: whilst trying to shrink an ext3 partiton...

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 12:16:56PM +0100, Ron Simpkin wrote:
> 9      10142.631  19092.875  logical   ext3        
> (parted) resize 9 10142.631 14489                                          
> ext2_del_group: this should not happen anymore!

This is strange indeed.  Could you send to the list the output of:

        dumpe2fs /dev/hda9 | gzip > e2fs-del-group.gz

Also, if you have time/guts, could you modify Parted by changing
libparted/fs_ext2/ext2_resize.c, lines 243-245 to read:

                        fprintf (stderr,
                                "ext2_del_group: this should not "
                                "happen anymore! (group %d)\n",
                                (int) fs->gd[group]);

Then, run Parted again, and see what it has to say...
(It should give the block group number that it's having problems with)

Thanks!
Andrew