GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 766693
Can't resize the "root" or "/" partition from Ubuntu
Last modified: 2016-06-15 19:12:40 UTC
Created attachment 328241 [details] the gparted details file. Thank you for taking the time to solve my problem. I need to reduce the size of the partition containing "root " to give more room to another. Use the Live USB gparted and when I give this error apply changes . It should be noted that previously had enlarged the size of the partition that contains a "root", since the partition containing "Windows " , but since I could not change the size of "root".
The last few lines in the log seem to indicate that the program resize2fs was scanning the inode table, but did not complete. resize2fs -p /dev/sda6 83975168K 00:00:04 ( ERROR ) Resizing the filesystem on /dev/sda6 to 20993792 (4k) blocks. Begin pass 3 (max = 649) Scanning inode table XXXXX----------------------------------- resize2fs 1.43-WIP (15-Mar-2016) Unfortunately there does not appear to be any indication why this step halted. It is possible that there is a bug in resize2fs 1.43-WIP. Usually WIP means Work-In-Progress. In an effort to see if the problem is with the resize2fs 1.43-WIP, would you be able to try the previous stable release of GParted Live (0.25.0-3) which contains version 1.42.13-1? https://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/0.25.0-3/ Remember to ensure that you have a backup of all your data before editing partitions. That way you can restore if anything goes wrong.
It seems that was. Change the version to stable last, and it worked perfectly, thanks. I hope this bug will be useful to improve subsequent updates of the application.
Thank you Lizandro for confirming that the issue was with resize2fs 1.43-WIP. From a quick look at the e2fsprogs upstream repository, it appears that a new 1.43 official release was created on May 17, 2016. See Tag 1.43 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git Currently the 1.43 release has not yet been packaged for Debian SID, which we use as our package source for GParted Live. See: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=e2fsprogs When it is officially released then we can see about creating a new GParted Live release.
GParted Live 0.26.1-1 was released on June 14, 2016. It contains the official release of e2fsprogs 1.43. As such I am closing this report as resolved.