On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 10:39 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > 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) :) Thanks; that worked. Unfortunately, after resizing the filesystem I had trouble resizing the underlying partitions. I backed up, and now I'm going to do a fresh install. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
