Bug 1121350
| Summary: | GParted compiled with online resize support when when libparted doesn't support it | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Mike Fleetwood <mike.fleetwood> |
| Component: | gparted | Assignee: | Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 20 | CC: | dakingun, nonamedotc |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | gparted-0.18.0-2.fc19 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Last Closed: | 2014-08-24 02:55:07 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component. This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component. Fedora 21 and Fedora Rawhide have recently updated to parted 3.2 [1] which includes online partition resize support [2] after all. Therefore GParted can be compiled with --enable-online-resize. I have successfully tested growing a mounted ext4 partition on Fedora Rawhide. Therefore this bug is now only about GParted compiled on Fedora 19, 20 and Fedora EPEL 7. Updated bug report version from rawhide to 20 to reflect this. Thanks, Mike Fleetwood (GParted Developer) [1] [parted-devel] parted-3.2 released [stable] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2014-July/004564.html [2] libparted: Add support for partition resize http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/commit/?id=f09ca967a0bc443b869a6fad5b5ffe8e95c3fe9a Thanks for the update, Mike. I have recently taken owvership of this package. I will try to complete the needful very soon. gparted-0.18.0-2.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gparted-0.18.0-2.fc20 gparted-0.18.0-2.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gparted-0.18.0-2.fc19 I have submitted this as an update to F19 and F20. It looks like EL-7 also has parted-3.1. I will compile version 0.19 of gparted for EL-7. Successfully tested gparted-0.18.0-2 packages on Fedora 19 & 20. Added feedback, but anonymous doesn't help karma. :-( (In reply to Mike Fleetwood from comment #8) > Successfully tested gparted-0.18.0-2 packages on Fedora 19 & 20. > Added feedback, but anonymous doesn't help karma. :-( NO Worries. Thanks for commenting. Package gparted-0.18.0-2.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gparted-0.18.0-2.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-9523/gparted-0.18.0-2.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback). I now have a Fedora account and given feedback so the packages now have karma +1. gparted-0.18.0-2.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. gparted-0.18.0-2.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
Description of problem: Performing an online grow or shrink of a partition (while the file system is mounted) produces the following error from libparted: Partition(s) 1 on /dev/sdb have been written, but we have been unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use. As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in use. You should reboot now before making further changes. This results with a failed online resize operation. The on-disk partition table has been changed but the kernel has not been informed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.18.0 in Fedora 19, 20, rawhide, Fedora EPEL 7 How reproducible: Every time when performing an online partition resize. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Resize partition while file system is mounted for supported type (See View > File System Support for available list) 2. 3. Actual results: (See description above) Expected results: Either online resize not allowed (very likely) or online resize works successfully without error from libparted (unlikely. See additional info below). Additional info: This happens because GParted has been compiled with --enable-online-resize, but libparted hasn't been patched to support online resizing. As I understanding online resizing won't be included upstream in libarted until after parted 3.2 is released. The GParted README file says this: If you wish to build this package with online resize support then the following is required: a) A version of libparted that includes the online resize patch. At time of writing (November 2013), this patch was only included in Debian and derived distros with parted package version 2.3-14 or higher. b) Linux kernel version 3.6 or higher. Enable with the --enable-online-resize flag: E.g., ./configure --enable-online-resize I suggest this is fixed by removing --enable-online-resize from the configuration and compilation of GParted. I suspect Fedora and especially Red Hat won't wan't to apply the online resize patch to parted as Debian and Ubuntu have; but instead wait until it is included upstream. Thanks, Mike Fleetwood (GParted Developer)