Re: Where's ext2online?

On Jan 31, 2008 9:43 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Kirk Lowery wrote:
I'm adding a 500GB drive to my (Fedora 8) desktop and want to extend
the root file system (journaled ext3) to use the new drive.

I've been reading all the FAQs and HOWTOs, and they mention the
program ext2online for the final step in the process. But I can't find
it anywhere. Is there a package that needs installing?

resize2fs has obsoleted it.

Ah. That explains it.

Reading the man page on resize2fs, it notes: "As of this writing, the
Linux 2.6 kernel supports on-line resize for filesystems mounted
using ext3 only." Yet when I used the LVM GUI app, it choked at this
step, saying it couldn't unmount the root filesystem. That's
understandable, but it raises the question: can one use resize2fs from
a commandline while running fedora with the root filesystem mounted?

Kirk

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