http://www.redhat.com/magazine/010aug05/departments/ask_shadowman/ QUOTE "Alex asked: I've got some AIX/HP-UX/Solaris sysadmins around my office that complain that the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform is weak because it does not support the resizing of mounted filesystems. I did some basic google searching and it appears they're correct, to expand an ext3 filesystem you have to unmount it. Is support for online resizing going to be added to ext3 soon? Will Red Hat Enterprise Linux ever support it? To which Shadowman replies: First, for everything you could possibly want to know about the latest and greatest happenings in ext3, Shadowman recommends that you check out the paper presented by Mingming Cao at the 2005 Ottawa Linux Symposium just last month. Online resizing support for ext3 hit the mainline kernel in 2.6.10 last November or thereabouts. The tools to take advantage of this support are in e2fsprogs 1.36. None of this code is in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel 2.6.9 and e2fsprogs 1.35), but all of it is in Fedora Core 4 (kernel 2.6.11 and e2fsprogs 1.37). Therefore, it's an exceedingly good bet that online resizing will be available, and very well baked, in Enterprise Linux 5. " /QUOTE Is shadowman wrong? I use a rhel 4 clone at home on a server and I know I use ext2online often. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
