On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 16:29 +1100, John Newbigin wrote: > Barry L. Kline wrote: > > > > 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. > Right .. the name being quite deceptive on that one :P -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061204/7a559577/attachment-0005.sig>