On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 03:48:04PM -0400, John Nelson wrote: > hi > Why does resize2fs have to scan the whole partition when expanding? it > dosent do this when it shrinks Resize2fs sometimes, when either expanding or shrinking a partition, will need to scan the inode table so it can move blocks. It may need to do this if it is shrinking a partition, and there are files which are using blocks at the end of partition which will no longer be available at the end of the srhink operation, so it needs to scan the inode tables to determine which inodes need to be updated as part of moving the data blocks. When resize2fs is expanding the filesystem, if the filesystem grows enough that more blocks need to be reserved for the block group descriptors, then similarly it will need to scan the inode table to determine which inodes will need to be updated when moving blocks out of the way so the block group descriptors can be expanded. Regards, - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
