Re: [ext2resize] bug in ext2resize 1.1.14

[Andreas D. <ad...@tu...>]

Andrew writes:
> I'm not sure what the benefits of maintaining ext2resize separately
> from Parted are.  I think we should try and put all ext2resize
> functionality into Parted.  One problem we might have is Parted's
> interface is very simple (read: not very expressive).  Are there
> any parameters expert users might want, that Parted can't interface?

The real question is whether you can do a filesystem resize without
accessing the interface (i.e. command-line only)?  This is important
for tools like e2fsadm or lvmadm.  There are very few options to the
ext2resize programs - device, new size (optional), verbose, debug.

> satisfactory:/home/parted/parted-dev/parted# ./parted /dev/hda
> GNU Parted 1.3.2
> (parted) p
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-2445.679 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.031    945.000  primary   FAT         boot
> 2        945.000   2358.562  primary   ext2        
> 3       2358.562   2445.187  primary   linux-swap  
> (parted) q

It looks like parted is a complete replacement for fdisk/cfdisk.
Is that correct?  Can you use it to simply manipulate partition
tables without resizing the fs, if desired?

Cheers, Andreas
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