Comment 40 for bug 59620

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Description of problem:
I have two Redhat partition, a small boot parition in hdb1 and the normal Linux
system in hdb3 (hda is a DVD player). Backup strategy is to boot to the small
backup parition and use parted to copy the main Linux parition to a separate
disk (hdd). This worked find in Redhat 7.3. It continued to work when I
reinstalled Redhat 9 in the boot partition, but it quite working when I
installed Redhat 9 in the main linux partition. When it is asked to make the
copy, parted complains that....

This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout! Parted can't resize this (yet)

A forced e2fsck -f /dev/hdb3 reports no errors, so I'm assuming that this is an
incompatibility between e2fsprogs and parted rather than a corrupted disk
partition. Upgrading to parted 1.6.5 hasn't helped.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Parted 1.6.3-11 E2fsprogs 1.32-6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run parted and create a partition slightly larger than the main Redhat linux
partition.
2. Ask to copy the main partition to the new one.

Actual Results: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout! Parted can't
resize this (yet)

Expected Results: It should have copied the partition

Additional info: