[ext2resize] can't shrink ext2 partition

[Shea A M. <sno...@ho...>]

I am trying to use ext2resize to shrink my hda3.  When I installed Storm
Linux 2 yrs ago, I chose to have hda1 2GB (/), hda2 (swap) 126MB, and
hda3 (/home)17.7GB.

now hda3 is no where near being full, in fact less than a GB is used.  I
want to make it about 10GB, and then add a new partition.

as root :
umount /home
ext2resize -v /dev/hda3 10g

looks like something is happening, as ext2resize gives output.
when I go into fdisk, I see that nothing has changed.  I tried changing
10g to 6g or 1000000 or whatever, but nothing changes in fdisk.  I have
tried dos fdisk and the fdisk which comes with potatoe.

I get this message when I start up linux's fdisk:
"The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2482.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)"

should I worry about that???

when I run 'parted' I get
Warning: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is
2482/255/63.
You should check that this matches the BIOS geometry before using this
program.

should I worry about this???

Please help me, as I has assumed this would be a simple operation.


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