[CentOS] Re: extending ext3 filesystem on logical volume

Fri Aug 18 00:08:51 UTC 2006
James Marcinek <jmarc1 at jemconsult.biz>

do you use resize2fs to do this. If so can you give an example so I make 
sure I do the syntax properly (man page doesn't show)

thanks,

james

Scott Silva wrote:
> 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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