parted: when resizing a Debian Live partition, parted says "Error: The file system is bigger than its volume!"

[Pierre Bauduin]

Hi there I think I've found a bug in parted

I have created a Debian Live system on a 2 GB USB key.
Here is what it looks like on the USB key:

address@hidden /root>fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 2013 MB, 2013265920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 244 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0007a8d3
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
   /dev/sdb1   *           1         101      811251   83  Linux

You see there is about 1.2 GB free after that Linux partition.

I am trying to move that Linux partition to the end of the 2 GB USB key.
This way I will be able to create a 1.2 GB FAT32 partition at the beginning
of the USB key.

Here is what I am doing:
address@hidden /root>parted /dev/sdb move 1 1200M 0M
Error: The file system is bigger than its volume!

Ouch ! parted won't let me move the partition !

I have filed this bug as Debian Bug in package parted version 1.7.1-5.1. 
It is Debian bug 469842: http://bugs.debian.org/469842

Would be nice if this could be fixed :)

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre Bauduin
Linux enthusiast since 1996
Linux registered user #64711
Debian GNU/Linux user
website: http://pierre.baudu.in/