On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 06:33:39PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > So users of large file systems are strongly recommended to use > > e2fsprogs 1.44.2, and if you are increasing the file system, using > > on-line file system growth in general will be safer than off-line > > growth. > > horrible given that common sense says "don't do online filesystem > changes when you can avoid them" It's counter-intuitive, I admit. The reason why is because resize2fs can do many more things; it can shrink file systems as well as grow them; it can move the inode table around to make room if there aren't enough reserved group descriptor blocks, etc. The kernel "online grow" code is much simpler, and so it's less prone to bugs. - Ted
