RHEL questions should be posted to the distribution-specific lists, not redhat-list. You'll get far better reponses that way since the Red Hat engineers hang out there more than here. taroon-list: RHEL 3 nahant-list: RHEL 4 On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:20:00AM -0500, Justin Conover wrote: > 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. You know, Solaris doesn't really support online resizing either. You can extend a logical volume, you but you sure as heck can't extend the size of a given partition, at least in Solaris 9 (so says my Solaris admin). > 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: > > 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. According to the Red Hat documentation and the nahant mailing lists, Shadowman is wrong. Online expansion is in RHEL 4. You can't reduce the size of a volume online though. You can do an rpm -q --changelog on the kernel and e2fsprogs rpms. I'd like to see you repost this to nahant-list. It's tough to fathom that shadowman could be wrong on this and I am most definitely NOT the right person to contradict him. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
