ext2online failure

[Andreas Dilger]

On Dec 22, 2005  14:38 -0500, Soon Wong wrote:
> this appears to be an ext3 filesystem.
> 
> [root at ppstest13 ~]# mount
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
> 
> I'm not sure if this has any bearing, but the new partition I added to 
> VolGroup00 was created on newly allocated space from a virtual scsi device 
> that had the backing device/logical volume extended on the virtual i/o 
> server.  I'd thought that shouldn't be a problem as all the steps I took 
> prior: creating the new partition /dev/sda4, adding it to VolGroup00, and 
> extending LogVol00 all completed successfully.

Any messages reported in the syslog?  What does the output of
/proc/partitions say for this device?

> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Andreas Dilger <adilger at clusterfs.com>
> To: Soon Wong <wongste at hotmail.com>
> CC: ext3-users at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: ext2online failure
> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:55:03 -0700
> 
> Is this an ext2 filesystem or ext3?  I beleive that the RHEL 1.18 release
> does not work with ext2 filesystems anymore (I'm not even sure the kernel
> has patched ext2).
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Principal Software Engineer
> Cluster File Systems, Inc.
> 
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Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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