On 8/19/05, Ed Wilts <ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Done, Sent to nahant list, rather confused about that, since Like I said I am able to do it on a clone. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
