I've got a RedHat linux 7.3 system, running LVM 1.03 (or whatever comes with the 7.3 distribution). This system is our fileserver. It is patched and uses the 2.4.18-19.7.xsmp kernel. I've got one volume group (homevg), with 2 LV's in that group (/dev/homevg/stafflv and /dev/homevg/userslv). The filesystem on /dev/homevg/userslv need to be expanded by 50GB. There are plenty of free PE's left in homevg, more than 126GB. I know how to expand the LV while the LV is mounted, piece of cake (lvextend -L+50GB /dev/homevg/userslv - expands userslv by 50GB). But how do I expand the filesystem while it is mounted? I don't want to umount the filesystem down to do this. The filesystem is an ext3 filesystem. Can I use resize2fs? The man pages for resize2fs say nothing about doing it while the filesystem is mounted, so I'm assuming I can't. If not, is there some other command that does it while the filesystem is online? If I need a kernel patch/recomplile while will allow me to perform filesystem resizes while that filesystem is up thats fine, please let me know what the patch is. I need it big time, and I should have figured it out before I brought the system online! ack! Thanks in advance! Alex --- --- Alex Lazarevich | Systems | Imaging Technology Group alazarev@itg.uiuc.edu | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu --- --- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
