Bug 104836

Summary: parted can't handle ext3 partitions
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Dan Mergens <danmergens>
Component: partedAssignee: Matt Wilson <msw>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Dan Mergens 2003-09-22 18:56:42 UTC 
Documentation for RedHat 9 suggests to use parted to manage partitions, however
parted does not work with ext3 partitions. Redhat 9 uses ext3 partitions by
default. Documentation should be corrected to reflect this. 

Latest version of parted used (as of Sept. 20, 2003). 

Run parted on a system with ext3 partitions. Execute 'print' command on any of
the ext3 partitions. 

 - reports "strange partition" ... "parted doesn't now how to handle this (yet)."

Parted DOES work for non ext3 partitions, such as vfat.
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-06-25 19:25:34 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90894 ***
Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:58:39 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.