On Friday 18 August 2006 02:40, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 20:28 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 18:32 -0400, James Marcinek wrote: > > > hello all, > > > > > > I am trying to expand my /var file system which resides on a logical > > > volume. <snip> > > > > > > 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... > > > > You may not be doing anything wrong. From the man page, > > > > you need to have the Online ext2 resize support > > (CON-FIG_EXT2_RESIZE) feature enabled in the kernel (after > > applying the appropriate patch for the 2.x series of kernels). > > > > *I* don't know if the kernel(s) have been compiled with this enabled? Do > > you know? > > I just checked the stock kernel (34-2 version) .config file and that > flag is not enabled, AFAICT. Maybe the Plus kernel has it? I know that online ext3 resize works just fine on c-4, I've resized many (including our centos-mirror and a few multi-terabyte filesystems with load). What the OP could be hitting is trying to resize an old or somehow broken fs. I'd have a look at "tune2fs -l" for the filesystem. /Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060818/8927b054/attachment-0005.sig>