Ross Boylan wrote: > 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? try "cp /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab" perhaps. Maybe the tools should check both (if they don't already, I haven't actually checked yet) :) -eric _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
