Re: reiserfs or ext3 on lvm?

ajp wrote:
Ok so it should be increase the size of a logical volume rather than
partition but the question is still the same - can I resize an ext3 file
system without loss of data?

The man page for resize2fs says it will resize both ext2 and ext3 systems
provided they are unmounted but doesn't say whether data could be
corrupted.
Has anyone tried resize2fs with ext3 fs and is it safe?

There is one way to be sure: try it. ;-)

houghi
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