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

[Ron Simpkin]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for taking the time to have a look at this

On Monday 30 September 2002 01:54, Andrew Clausen 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

please see the attachment
>
> 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]);
>

hmm, it wouldn't compile with the cast - so (after a very quick look through 
the code) I removed it to read:

                        fprintf (stderr,
                                "ext2_del_group: this should not "
                                "happen anymore! (group %d)\n",
                                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)

and here is the new error message

(parted) resize 9 10142.631 14489                                         
ext2_del_group: this should not happen anymore!(group 2228224)

Hope this helps

Ron

e2fs-del-group.gz
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