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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!