> My experience is that when you get the "block N not reserved" message it > is because you are attempting to increase the size of the filesystem > beyond what can be done online. I doubt that, because I am trying to resize the root fs by 3-4G, and earlier I resized my home fs by 10G without a problem. > An EXT[2|3] filesystem, when created, has a hard limit on the size to > which it can grow while mounted - to grow beyond this size requires the > file system to be unmounted so that additional data structures can be > created within it. I believe the rule of thumb is that you can double > the size of the file system from what it was originally while it is > mounted, but you cannot go beyond that without unmounting it and > extending it. In which case my resize should have worked... it's a minor increase, about 25% of the current size. > XFS does not have this restriction, and IIRC neither does ReiserFS. > > So, the upshot is that the file system will have to be unmounted and > extended. If this is the rootfs then this will have to be done from a > rescue disk or from the initrd (what I have done is to create an initrd > that extends the partition to the maximum size of the partition it is > in, and then I can simply invoke that initrd when needed.) I can try the rescue disk, but the "block reserved" message is not helpful at all when trying to determine the cause of the problem. -- Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cornell University -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list