[Feisty] parted can't resize ext3 partition created by installer

[Brian Murray]

Binary package hint: parted

I was trying to resize an ext3 partition, that was created by the Feisty Fawn Herd 5 installer, with parted and received the following output:

GNU Parted 1.7.1
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p

Disk /dev/sda: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
 1 32.3kB 22.9GB 22.9GB primary ntfs boot
 3 22.9GB 53.6GB 30.7GB primary ext3
 4 53.6GB 153GB 99.4GB extended
 5 53.6GB 54.6GB 1020MB logical linux-swap
 6 54.6GB 153GB 98.4GB logical ext3
 2 153GB 160GB 7041MB primary ntfs

(parted) resize 6
Start? [54.6GB]?
End? [153GB]? 110GB
Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.

Running tune2fs against that particular partition returned the following:

bdmurray@batman:~/music$ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda6
tune2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
Filesystem volume name: <none>
Last mounted on: <not available>
Filesystem UUID: 726bfd6d-90e8-4e59-82a4-d10db2b7c16a
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode dir_index filetype sparse_super large_file
Filesystem flags: signed directory hash
Default mount options: (none)
Filesystem state: clean
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 12009472
Block count: 24015159
Reserved block count: 1200757
Free blocks: 23355035
Free inodes: 12008528
First block: 0
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Reserved GDT blocks: 1018
Blocks per group: 32768
Fragments per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 16384
Inode blocks per group: 512
Filesystem created: Thu Mar 8 14:59:52 2007
Last mount time: Sat Mar 10 20:56:24 2007
Last write time: Sun Mar 11 20:28:12 2007
Mount count: 10
Maximum mount count: 22
Last checked: Thu Mar 8 14:59:52 2007
Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
Next check after: Tue Sep 4 15:59:52 2007
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
First inode: 11
Inode size: 128
Journal inode: 8
Default directory hash: tea
Directory Hash Seed: 53ce4cb9-8762-415f-970d-3247b642ff38
Journal backup: inode blocks

I am not certain which feature is incompatible.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I have version 1.7.1-3ubuntu4 of parted installed.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. The incompatible feature is resize_inode; this is also bug 59620.