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parted package

  1. Bug #7993
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 7993

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

I encountered a similar problem, and discovered (when running parted on the
command line) that when a check or resize command is executed on some
filesystems, parted will say:

"This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout" and refuse to act on it.

This is reflected in the UI as simply ignoring the change