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cdbfoster

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Registered: 2014-01-02

Posts: 12

[Solved] Dependency failed for /home

Similar to this thread, I attempted to shrink my /home partition to make room for another partition after it.  My /home partition starts at 54GB and took up the remaining 946GB of the drive.  I wanted to shave off 150GB for the new partition.  I booted a live-cd, and used

# resize2fs /dev/sda4 796G
# parted
  > resizepart 4 850GB

Everything seemed to work fine, though when I rebooted, I got the error in the title, and a root recovery login.  How can I recover from this?  Also, did I do anything wrong?

Unlike in the linked thread, the UUID of the partition given by "lsblk -o NAME,UUID" still matches that in /etc/fstab.  Any ideas?  I'm happy to provide logs and more info.

Last edited by cdbfoster (2016-09-16 19:13:54)

cdbfoster

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Registered: 2014-01-02

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] Dependency failed for /home

It was an issue of inconsistent units.  resize2fs works in gibibytes (GiB), and by default, parted works in gigabytes (GB).

So, 796 / (1.024 ^ 3) = 741.33.

# parted                     # This was just to undo my previous partition resize, and to give resize2fs enough room to work.  I don't know if it was necessary.
  > resizepart 4 1000GB
# resize2fs /dev/sda4 741G
# parted
  > resizepart4 850GB

Rebooted and everything's fine.