Bug 673464

Summary:	Unable to resize logical partitions using 'parted'
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Savitha <bijoy_savitha>
Component:	parted	Assignee:	Brian Lane <bcl>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team>
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Version:	5.6	Keywords:	Reopened
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Description Savitha 2011-01-28 10:17:26 UTC

Description of problem:
Resizing the logical partitions using parted returns "Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled." error.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Redhat 5.6

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create partitions on host storage device - 1 extended and 1 logical (maximum size).
2. Create ext3 fs, mount and copy data 
3. Expand back-end LUN (created metaLUN) 
4. Unmount filesystem 
5. blockdev --rereadpt <device>
6. Verify larger size is seen in output of /proc/partitions 
7. Use parted 'resize' command to resize partitions
  a. resize of extended partition is successful - no error message
  b. resize of logical partition fails with message "Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled."
  
Expected results:
Resize should complete successfully.

Comment 1 David Cantrell 2011-07-27 18:23:10 UTC

Do not use parted to resize filesystems.  Use the native filesystem tools to do that, then adjust the partition table using parted (or fdisk).

Comment 2 Savitha 2011-07-28 05:04:03 UTC

By 'native filesystem tools', are you referring to e2fsck and resize2fs utility? 

-Savitha

Comment 3 Brian Lane 2011-07-28 16:45:53 UTC

Yes, assuming that is the filesystem you are using.