On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:21:59PM +0100, Pim Bliek wrote: > Hi > > Since a couple of months I am running Etch on a new production server, > with the following specs: > > - kernel 2.6.18-smp package > - lvm 2.02.06-3 > - RAID5 on a 3Ware card (3w_9xxx) > > I want to grow my /var filesystem ONLINE. I can find tons of docs on > offline resizing, but I am not in the position to go into single user > and umount it. This is production. > > I took ext3 as the fs, since this is supposed to be able to resize > online. So I went (/var is now 4 GB): > > # lvextend -L 6G /dev/vg00/var > # resize2fs -p /dev/vg00/var > resize2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) > Filesystem at /dev/vg00/var is mounted on /var; on-line resizing required > old desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 1 > resize2fs: Kernel does not support online resizing >
not any help, but I'm in the same boat. I've got an ext3 fs that needs growing and I get the same error. Have you tried the -f flag? (on a throw away fs of course)? A
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