On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:55:55AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > This is obviously a bug that needs to be fixed. The good news is > that instead of resizing your filesystem while it is unmounted you can > resize it while it is mounted, and that shouldn't suffer from any of > these problems (and is much more convenient). You need the ext2resize > RPM from sourceforge (don't know why it isn't in FC2 if they have also > applied the patch to mke2fs): > > ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/sourceforge/e/ex/ext2resize/ext2resize-1.1.19-1.i386.rpm > > Then you can mke2fs a new filesystem, mount it, lvextend, and run > "ext2online /dev/severn_vg0/test" and it will grow to fill the LV. > There is also a tool that ships with LVM called "e2fsadm" which does > this for you, like "e2fsadm -L +5G /dev/severn_vg0/test" should do > both the lvextend and ext2online step at once. > > You should also be able to properly resize it while unmounted with > ext2resize, but that is far less interesting... Looks like resize2fs has not been fixed to handle the new resizing code, but ext2online is in the Red Hat e2fsprogs. I used it the other day on my root filesystem, and it seemed to work fine. [rugolsky@mercury ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/ext2online e2fsprogs-1.35-11.2 Regards, Bill Rugolsky _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
