Barry L. Kline wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > James Marcinek wrote: > >>Thanks for the reply but I'm still a bit confused... My filesystem >>was ext3 not ext2. I realize that many of the ext2 filesystem >>commands can be used with ext3 filesystems but they need to specify >>that the file system is ext3... I believe I had tried several of >>these commands but couldn't figure out how to specify that I wanted >>to do it to ext3. Can this be done while the file system is mounted >>(I have an AIX background which uses LVM and jfs which has been >>possible for years)? > > > Ignore the fact that the command is called "ext-2-online" and just use > it with your ext3 filesystem. It will work fine. Also, you can easily > do this while the system is mounted. I did just that when composing my > reply to ensure that I wasn't leading you astray. For extra confusion, be aware that under CentOS-4, ext2online only works with ext3. It will not work with ext2. The tool requires kernel patches which are only present in the ext3 filesystem, not ext2. John. > > Barry > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFbx55CFu3bIiwtTARAmvAAKCnGpXq8M7LpiIn93hK0pUhhHCapwCfT0zQ > 394nidYi2GLsmQ0gNhBWAj0= > =KQ+c > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin