resizing an EXT2 partion fails

[toivo]

I'm trying to resize an ext2 partition and it fails with 
     SIGXFSZ (File size limit exceeded)  
 
Using /dev/hdc 
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hdc is 
39693/16/63.  Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 503.999M. 
(parted) print 
Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-19536.767 megabytes 
Disk label type: msdos 
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags 
1          0.031   9536.625  primary   ext2        boot 
2       9536.625   9658.687  primary   linux-swap 
4       9658.688  14768.085  primary   ext2 
 
resize 4  9658.688 15768.085   
 
This is a trace of what happens 
 
read(3, "\2\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0\0\200#9\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 
4096 
old_mmap(NULL, 4198400, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) 
= 0x40270000 
_llseek(3, 18446744071892041728, [15362359296], SEEK_SET) = 0 
read(3, "\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377"..., 4096) = 
4096 
_llseek(3, 10127867904, [10127867904], SEEK_SET) = 0 
read(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 
4096 
_llseek(3, 10127867904, [10127867904], SEEK_SET) = 0 
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 
-1 EFBIG (File too large) 
--- SIGXFSZ (File size limit exceeded) --- 
+++ killed by SIGXFSZ +++ 
 
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