-----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. Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFbx55CFu3bIiwtTARAmvAAKCnGpXq8M7LpiIn93hK0pUhhHCapwCfT0zQ 394nidYi2GLsmQ0gNhBWAj0= =KQ+c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----