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. > >