On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 12:04:25PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: > To make this trivial to do for users, I think that it would be really > nice to have a two-level wrappers for things like resize, add a volume, > shrink, etc. Similar to the way we have mount or fsck invoke file system > specific bits. > Good idea? Bad idea? We began this within LVM some time ago with a script we called 'fsadm'. http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/LVM2/scripts/fsadm.sh?rev=1.24&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=lvm2&f=h Alasdair fsadm: Utility to resize or check the filesystem on a device fsadm [options] check device - Check the filesystem on device using fsck fsadm [options] resize device [new_size[BKMGTPE]] - Change the size of the filesystem on device to new_size Options: -h | --help Show this help message -v | --verbose Be verbose -e | --ext-offline unmount filesystem before ext2/ext3/ext4 resize -f | --force Bypass sanity checks -n | --dry-run Print commands without running them -l | --lvresize Resize given device (if it is LVM device) -y | --yes Answer "yes" at any prompts new_size - Absolute number of filesystem blocks to be in the filesystem, or an absolute size using a suffix (in powers of 1024). If new_size is not supplied, the whole device is used. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
