Convert "rather strange" ext2 paritions to normal ones?

From: Grant Edwards (grante_at_visi.com)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: 30 Mar 2004 18:03:33 GMT

I need to move/resize some partitions on one of my machines.

I've done this several times in the past with Gnu parted, but
now it refuses to work: parted 1.6.8 complains that my ext2 and
ext3 partitions have "rather strange" layouts and says it can't
resize them.

Even when I try to move a partition without resizing it, I
still get the error message that it can't be resized.

I've tried turning off the journals, and have resized the
partitions a couple times with "resize2fs". Parted still
doesn't know what to do.

Is there any way to convert the partition back into ext2/ext3
partitions that parted _does_ know how to handle? 

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