Re: resize online with ext3?

Jonathan Sailor <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.evms.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
EVMS doesn't support online expansion of ext3. If you could get ext3 to 
not try online expansion at all, you should be able to epxand the 
underlying volume using EVMS and then expand the filesystem using 
resize2fs.

The procedure would look like:
  1) Move ext2.*.so from /lib/evms/x.y.z/ to some temporary location
  2) Use EVMS to expand the EVMS volume you want to grow
  3) Use resize2fs to expand the filesystem
  4) Move ext2.*.so back to /lib/evms/x.y.z/

(Loosely based off a question on http://evms.sourceforge.net/faq.html ).

There's been some discussion of getting EVMS to support doing ext3 
online expansion itself, but I don't think it's ever been implemented.

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 05:30:54PM +0100, Mauro Sanna wrote:
>> Hello.
>> I've debian etch with evms and my filesystems with ext3.
>> With ext3 it isn't impossibible to make an expand or a shrink online?
>> I know with reiserfs it is possibile.
>
> Reiserfs can only do an online expand (it can't do an online or
> offline shrink at all).
>
> Ext3 can do an online or offline expand, and an offline shrink.  I
> can't speak to weather or not the EVMS Ui supports it, though.
>
> 					- Ted
>
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