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.