I have two identically sized partitions on my laptop's hard-drive (A and B we'll call them) so that when I'm ready to upgrade to a new major release of my OS on A, I can copy A to B for backup purposes, upgrade A and run on A from there. If something goes wrong, I copy B back to A and start over.
Problem is, I'm unable to use gparted to copy partitions anymore. I select my source partition in gparted and hit the Copy button and all seems good. The problem is, gparted will not let me select Paste no matter what I do. Both partitions are unmounted, and I've tried deleting the destination partition first and then selecting it, but Paste is still disabled.
I tried using parted (instead of gparted), and get the following:
(parted) cp /dev/sda 2 1 Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled. Compatible features are has_journal, dir_index, filetype, sparse_super and large_file. Use tune2fs or debugfs to remove features.
I'm using a gparted live cd that has parted v1.8.8 and gparted v0.4.3.
Just for giggles, I downloaded the newest gparted live cd and had the exact same problem. However, there I was unable to run parted because gparted no longer defaults to the root user when you start a console, and I don't know the root password. Nice. I'll deal with that later.
So - what am I doing wrong?
according to gparted:
/dev/sda1 ext3 48.35GiB
/dev/sda2 ext3 48.35GiB
unallocated 7.38MiB
/dev/sda3 swap 5.74GiB
/dev/sda4 extended
/dev/sda5 ext3 46.61GiB
How can I copy sda2 to sda1 here?
