[CentOS] Re: extending ext3 filesystem on logical volume

Thu Aug 17 23:39:01 UTC 2006
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

James Marcinek spake the following on 8/17/2006 3:32 PM:
> hello all,
> 
> I am trying to expand my /var file system which resides on a logical
> volume. I successfully issued the lvextend command. However when I try
> to issue the ext2online command I receive a return code of 3 which the
> man pages indicates:
> 
> ext2online /var
> ext2online v1.1.18 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b
> ext2online: group 0, block 7 not reserved
> 
> ext2online: unable to resize /dev/mapper/root_vg-lv_var
> 
> echo $?
> 3
> 
> 3    Error in pre-resizing (user space) operation
> 
> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong. I would prefer doing this
> online...
> 
> thanks,
> 
> James
I think it would be much safer to do it offline.
Online resizing only came to be in kernel 2.6.7 somewhere, and I haven't seen
anything saying it was real safe yet.


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