Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:58:59PM +0000, WipeOut wrote:Yes i know they don't support online resizing, but I could not get the / fiesystem to resize enev when booted from the rescue disk and umounting / .. It simply said that it would not resize.. Not much detail as to why.. :(
I could not work out how to extend the / filesystem after I extended the LV containing / .. It wanted the / partition dismounted before it would extend the filesystem.. I tried to do this by booting CD 1 in rescue mode and the trying to extend the filesystem using resize2fs which simply gave me the error saying it would not extend..
Ext2/Ext3 does not include online resizing, though there are experimental patches on SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=303834&group_id=3834&func=browse
Several of the other journaling filesystems support online expansion, including Reiserfs and XFS.
You ought to be able to resize Ext3 from the rescue disks.
This is why I was questioning if anyone had actually managed to resize a / filesystem in a LV..
Later..
