* Petter Reinholdtsen > This sounds very good. I tried online resizing with kernel > 2.6.15-1-686-smp on etch, and was unable to get it working. Is this > supported for ext2 or ext3, or both? How can I verify that it is > working? > > I tested using ext2online. Is this the wrong tool to use?
Hmm. It doesn't work anymore with ext2resize 1.1.19-4. If I downgrade to 1.1.19-3, it works again. You've broken it! Bad, bad Petter! :-) Log: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) sudo lvcreate -L2G -ntest echo Logical volume "test" created [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) sudo mke2fs -O has_journal,resize_inode /dev/echo/test 1G mke2fs 1.39-WIP (31-Dec-2005) Etichetta del filesystem= Tipo SO: Linux Dimensione blocco=4096 (log=2) Dimensione frammento=4096 (log=2) 131072 inode, 262144 blocchi 13107 blocchi (5.00%) riservati per l'utente root Primo blocco dati=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=268435456 8 gruppi di blocchi 32768 blocchi per gruppo, 32768 frammenti per gruppo 16384 inode per gruppo Backup del superblocco salvati nei blocchi: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376 Scrittura delle tavole degli inode: fatto Creazione del journal (8192 blocchi): fatto Scrittura delle informazioni dei superblocchi e dell'accounting del filesystem: fatto Questo filesystem verrĂ automaticamente controllato ogni 33 mount, o 180 giorni, a seconda di quale venga prima. Usare tune2fs -c o -i per cambiare. [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) sudo mount /dev/echo/test /mnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) df -hP /mnt Filesystem Dimens. Usati Disp. Uso% Montato su /dev/mapper/echo-test 1008M 34M 924M 4% /mnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) sudo ext2online /mnt ext2online v1.1.18 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) df -hP /mnt Filesystem Dimens. Usati Disp. Uso% Montato su /dev/mapper/echo-test 2,0G 34M 1,9G 2% /mnt Using 1.1.19-4, the ext2online step yields: ext2online v1.1.19 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b ext2online: unable to resize /dev/mapper/echo-test There's only code for online resizing in ext3, not ext2 (in the kernel.org tree, anyway). See /usr/share/linux/fs/ext3/resize.c. Also the current resize2fs program from e2fsprogs Mercurial repository is able to do online resizing (tested it and it works fine), so IMHO the ext2resize suite is quickly losing its relevancy... I don't really see why anyone would want to use these tools over the ones included in e2fsprogs, as the latter obviously enjoy much better upstream maintenance. Only ext2prepare-equivalent functionality is missing from e2fsprogs now. I'm using an unmodified linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 (version 2.6.15-8), by the way. Cheers -- Tore Anderson