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How to resize an ext3 filesystem using parted. Tested on Frugalware 0.9rc2.

First you need to disable some ext3 features:

tune2fs -O ^resize_inode /dev/hda5
tune2fs -O ^dir_index /dev/hda5

Run fsck:

e2fsck -p /dev/hda5

Now resize with parted

parted

Use 'p' to see the current situation and 'help resize' to see the resize syntax.

Then run fsck again:

e2fsck -f -p /dev/hda5

Finally enable again the dir_index feature:

tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/hda5

NOTE: the resize_inode feature can't be enabled once it is disabled, but - unless you are on lvm - probably won't need it anyway.

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