Re: [ext2resize] can't shrink ext2 partition

[Andrew C. <cl...@gn...>]

Shea A Martin wrote:
> 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.

ext2resize doesn't modify the partition table (but Parted does)
You have to do that yourself with ext2resize.

> 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???

No.

Andrew Clausen