Depending on your kernel, you may be able to resize a mounted ext3. Just run resize2fs. It worked fine on my gentoo distro on a plain partition. Thanks, Malahal. Richard Kollmar [rkollmar@uiuc.edu] wrote: > Dear All: > I apologize if this has been asked before, but I can't find a way to > search the list archives: > How do you safely resize an ext3 filesystem after extending a logical > volume? > I am adding a new hard drive to increase the size of my logical volume > "home1" in logical volume group "home" with LVM2 under Ubuntu 6.10.1 LTS.* > The instructions*in the LVM Howto are pretty straightforward; the only > part that spooks me is the resizing of the ext3 filesystem.* This is what > I have done so far: > (installed new hardware & partitioned with fdisk; shows up as > /dev/sdb1) > (backed up the existing logical volume in case something bad > happens) > # pvcreate /dev/sdb1 > * Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created > # vgextend home /dev/sdb1 > * Volume group "home" successfully extended > # lvextend -l 357700 /dev/home/home1 > * Extending logical volume home1 to 1.36 TB > * Logical volume home1 successfully resized > From what I googled, the next steps are a bit more involved for LVM2 than > the Howto lets on.* Does the following look o.k. to the experts: > ' use a root login, not su or sudo, because /home will be > unmounted > # umount*/dev/home/home1 ' the next steps should be done > off-line > # e2fsck -C 0 -v*dev/home/home1 ' make sure the > file system is ok > #*tune2fs -O ^has_journal*/dev/home/home1 'disable > journaling on the logical volume > # resize2fs /dev/home/home1 'do the resizing > # e2fsck -C 0 -v*dev/home/home1 ' make sure the > file system is still ok > #*tune2fs -O has_journal*/dev/home/home1 're-enable > journaling > # e2fsck -C 0 -v*dev/home/home1 ' yes, I am a > first-timer and somewhat paranoid > # mount*/dev/home/home1 /home ' back on-line > Thanks in advance for any help, > microscope > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
