Grow 12Gb FAT32 partition to 40Gb, and operation seems to succeed but resultant partition has error and fails windows scandisk

2009-08-20 Thread John Kruiniger
> From reviewing all of your testing John, it appears that the source of the problem with the FAT32 file system originates with the resize operation. This problem occurs when using either GParted or Parted. Since GParted uses the library libparted from the parted project, the common ground where t

libparted fails when growing a 12Gb partition to 40Gb

2009-08-20 Thread John Kruiniger
From reviewing all of your testing John, it appears that the source of the problem with the FAT32 file system originates with the resize operation. This problem occurs when using either GParted or Parted. Since GParted uses the library libparted from the parted project, the common ground where

bogus ext3 "incorrect link count" detection on resize (1.9.0)

2009-08-20 Thread Greg Roelofs
It seems that 1.9.0's ext3 support isn't quite there yet. Even after removing resize_inode and ext_attr with debugfs and dir_index internally, and then running e2fsck to clean up the dregs, parted refuses to resize the partition ("error: found an inode with incorrect link count, better go run e2fs