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  1. Bug #59620
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 59620

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout (newer ext2/ext3)

Rolf: it is possible that this has been partially fixed in 1.7.1 (the version released with Edgy). One of the sets of changes was this:

        * fs/ext2/ext2.c (ext2_open): removed call to ext2_determine_itoffset;
        also moving it from this file to ext2_resize.c.
        * fs/ext2/ext2_resize.c (ext2_resize): added call to
        ext2_determine_itoffset and show a warning if not successful.

I think that's the "rather strange layout" warning. This change will arrange for that code only to be run when you actually try to resize a partition, not merely when libparted opens the partition, which should make us a lot less likely to run into this in the installer.

Would it be possible for me to get the output of:

  for x in 1 2 5 6 7 9; do sudo tune2fs -l /dev/hda$x; done

... run from e.g. an Edgy live CD (or Knoppix would probably do as well)? That should tell me what features are enabled on each filesystem, and thus which ones libparted is unable to handle.