Hi, On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 17:13, John Stoffel wrote: > Is it possible to resize an ext3 filesystem while it's online? Yes and no. Yes: you want the bits at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ for it. But no, it's still somewhat experimental --- the kernel bits seem robust for me but the user-land tools still need a bit of work. For online growth on ext2/3, you need to prepare space on-disk for the filesystems group descriptor tables to grow into. The new format for that is only understood by a patched mke2fs, so you can't "prepare" an existing filesystem for online growth just yet. And e2fsck can't yet properly prepare errors in that reserved space. I've *just* done a release of the kernel patches against 2.6.6-rc1 and the user-space patches against e2fsprogs-1.35, and you're welcome to try those out. > It > looks like resize2fs won't do the trick unless the filesystem is > unmounted. Correct, resize2fs is offline-only. > And ext2resize takes one look at the filesystem while it's > mounted and complains as well, this time about un-supported features. The current one in CVS works for me --- I've added recognition of extended attributes to that. A proper release of that is in progress. Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
