leoboiko’s computing log

Suppose you want to shrink your root filesystem a bit, to make up some space for World of Warcraft in that old Windows partition. You fire up a rescue disk, and parted complains about “unsupported feature”. It doesn’t say which feature though, so you google around and try to tune2fs -O ^dir_index the partition. parted is still not satisfied, so you say what the hell, I’ll just turn off everything, resize, and then turn’em on back again. Can’t do no harm, right?

Then you clear sparse_super and tune2fs warns you to run e2fsck. At this point, since you’re eager to see what your Female Human Mage alter ego will loook like, you might think you can save some time by turning off filetype too, and then fscking just once. Don’t do that. I mean, don’t be stupid. What kind of moron would ignore that warning when dealing with his primary, most important filesystem with all your cherised data in it?

/me lost everything