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Topic: Possible Resize/Move Operation Hanging Problem

I’m trying to replace my 40GB laptop HD with an 80 GB HD. I used Acronis True Image 11 Home to create an image of the old HD. The old HD has 3 ext3 and 1 swap partition. I’m using the latest version of the gparted Live CD (v 0.4.1-2). Both new HD and image file test ok.

Acronis will only restore the exact 40GB image to the new 80GB drive. When I try and use your live CD to resize and move the partitions, it seems to “hang�  on the checking file system for errors phase. Specifically, it showed that message for about 10 hours before I rebooted the laptop. I tried again and the same thing happened. During the 10 hour run, I noticed the HD LED is constantly on and the status/activity bar is moving to the right and left as expected but none of the pending operations were completed.

Any suggestions on what could be the problem? I’m will to retry and gather more information if someone can tell me what to provide.

kwat

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Re: Possible Resize/Move Operation Hanging Problem

You could try running the fsck command from the command line to determine the source of the problem.

GParted uses:
     e2fsck -f -y -v /path-to-your-device-partition

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Re: Possible Resize/Move Operation Hanging Problem

Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you suggested by running e2fsck -f -y from a rescue cd. On one partition, I'm seeing lots of inode related errors then e2fsck restarts and the same thing repeats. Any suggestions on how to correct this problem would be greatly appreciated.

The errors I see are:
Inode 32609 was part of the orphaned inode list. FIXED
Inode 32609, i_blocks is 165006656, should be 0. FIXED
Group 49's inode table at 16006656 conflicts with some other fs block. Relocate? Yes.

Note, these results are after I restored the image to the new HD. I don't know if the old HD has the same problems.

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Re: Possible Resize/Move Operation Hanging Problem

Perhaps you might want to try reformatting the new drive, and then perform a file copy from the old drive to the new drive?

Perhaps e2fsck can fix the problems on the new drive if given enough time?

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Re: Possible Resize/Move Operation Hanging Problem

Only one of the partitions had problems, so I had to copy the files manually for that partition. Everything is fine now. Thanks.