[ltp] ACK!

[Adam Southerland]

I used the parted boot disks which worked well =)

(I did reboot MANY times! (Just to see if it still worked...))

After everything was where it needed to be, I rebooted to go back into 
parted to make the last partition (/usr) and have it fill the drive.... 
Earlier I shrank it as much as possible to move other data around....

The last step killed it... If might have very well been something I did 
wrong... I don't know...

Just installed Debian via HTTP/FTP - Great! but I miss my Slack =(

Thanks!
Adam


----Original Message Follows----
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] ACK!
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:34:09 -0400

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:50:27PM -0300, Adam Southerland wrote:
 > I did it... I hosed my Laptop...
 >
 > GNU Parted... I resized the partition downward and then later resized it
 > upwards...
 >
 > When I resized it up, apparently some info was still there from when I
 > resized it down... Duplicate INodes (or something like that)

Resizing down and then up shouldn't cause any problems, unless there
are bugs in GNU parted.  I know it works fine under resize2fs as long
as you're careful to coordinate making partition table changes either
before or after running resize2fs (depending on whether you are
growing or shrinking the partition), and as long as you make sure the
kernel actually re-read the partition table (sometimes you have to
reboot, if other partitions on the disk are in use).

						- Ted
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