SUMMARY I am trying to grow a partition on my ssd storage drive. 1.82 TiB (/dev/sdb) I have 2 partitions on the drive: /dev/sdb1 Type: ext4 Size: 1.67 TiB Used: 1.61.23 GiB unallocated Type: unknown Size: 156.25 GiB --- I'd like to grow the ext4 partition to 1.82 TiB When I attempt to do this I get an error message saying 'Check file system on partition '/dev/sdb1' STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open resize/move function on KDE Partition Manager 2. Use slider to grow '/dev/sdb1' (same problem occurs if I use any method. hit OK -it seems ok at this point. 3. Hit Apply - dialogue appears to verify that I want to apply the changes- I hit Apply OBSERVED RESULT Dialogue appears: 'There were errors while applying operations. Aborted. KDE Partition Manager Grow partition ‘/dev/sdb1’ from 1.67 TiB to 1.82 TiB Job: Check file system on partition ‘/dev/sdb1’ Command: e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sdb1 Check file system on partition ‘/dev/sdb1’: Error Checking partition ‘/dev/sdb1’ before resize/move failed. Grow partition ‘/dev/sdb1’ from 1.67 TiB to 1.82 TiB: Error EXPECTED RESULT The partition should grow to 1.82 TiB as attempted but doesn't. In Konole I ran: e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sdb1 Result : e2fsck: No such file or directory while trying to open /deb/sdb1 Possibly non-existent device? Presumably this is because the partition isn't mounted, but it wouldn't let me resize the partition when it is mounted. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Ubuntu Studio 21.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.80.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.11.0-16-lowlatency OS Type: 64-bit Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 12 × Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-1650 v3 @ 3.50GHz Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NV117 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
> e2fsck: No such file or directory while trying to open /deb/sdb1 Did you make a typo here? /deb should be /dev
Created attachment 145448 [details] attachment-14343-0.html Hi Andrius Yes. That's a typo in my report. It was dev in the cmd error. Cheers James On 13 Jan 2022, 23:11, at 23:11, "Andrius Štikonas" <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote: >https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448401 > >--- Comment #1 from Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu> --- >> e2fsck: No such file or directory while trying to open /deb/sdb1 > >Did you make a typo here? /deb should be /dev > >-- >You are receiving this mail because: >You reported the bug.
So if you run sudo e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sdb1 what's the output then? But in general if this command fails, there is some issue with file system and partitionmanager will refuse to operate on broken file system.
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Sorry for the delayed reply. I ended up cutting my losses and doing a clean install. Thanks for your help. James
Closing this then. There isn't much we can do from KDE Partition Manager in case of broken filesystem anyway besides running e2fsck which we already do.