I am trying to shrink an ext3 filesystem mounted on top of software RAID. The ultimate goal is to shrink the RAID to make room for a new installation that will use LVM over RAID. I get the error in the subject, and wonder what I need to do to avoid it. Details follow: Shrinking needs to be done offline, right? After being unable to get Knoppix started I used the break=bottom to stop the boot process while I was still in the initrd. When I dismounted the filesystem I discovered my initrd didn't have the ext3 utilities. I remount the file system and copied /sbin, /lib, and /etc onto my ramdisk. Without /etc fsck complained about being unable to find fstab; afterwords, it ran. However, both fsck and resize2fs complained ext2_check_mount_point: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/md1 is mounted. Adding the -f flag did not help. There is no /etc/mtab file. I realize this is all pretty dodgy, but is there a way I can deal with this problem? What file or directory is it looking for? -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94107-1739 hm: (415) 550-1062 _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
