Can you provide a detailed reproduction instructions --- preferably one that I can run myself, so I can see exactly is going on?
One thing that would be helpful is whether this can me reproduced without gpart being part of the mix. That is, can you do something like this: mke2fs -t ext4 /path/to/fs.img 20G mount -o loop /path/to/fs.img /mnt <create files, or not, if it's not needed for the repro> umount /mnt e2fsck -fy /path/to/fs.img resize2fs /path/to/fs.img 30G If it does require gpart being in the mix, this could very much be a gpart bug, in which case I'll be happy to hand this off to the gpart maintainer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to e2fsprogs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1857914 Title: resize2fs destroy the content of the partition Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hello The used version of ubuntu is 19.10 So the used version of ubuntu is GParted 0.32.0 and the used of resize2fs is 1.45.3 (14-Jul-2019) I wanted to shrink by 20 GB the size of an old partition created with ubuntu 18.04 and stored on an external hard drive connected by USB3. The process says it works perfectly well see attachment file But the partition can no longer be mounted. The message is: mount: /mnt/sdb2 : wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. if I do the stupidity to launch the fsk command to repair, I find all the files and directory in the special directory called Lost + found Being able to remake the original content, I have seen four times that it gives this unpleasant result. It also allows me to change the scenario. - If I use an internal disk partition instead of the external disk, you're fine. - If I use version 18.04, everything is fine even if I use the external disk - If I make a new partition on the external disk in version 19.10, I can shrink also without any problem. So I think there is a software regression for a very specific context. Thanks. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1857914/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
