ext2online with 1k blocks not working

[Andreas Dilger]

On Aug 21, 2008  20:32 +0200, Jure Pečar wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:47:33 -0400
> Theodore Tso <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:
> > Can you replicate the problem using resize2fs from e2fsprogs version
> > 1.41.0?  Resize2fs has supported online resize for quite sometime, and
> > I'm not sure the ext2online tool is being actively maintained at this
> > point.
> 
> Ah yes, resize2fs ... I knew there's another tool for resizing, just forgot
> its name.
> 
>  [root at localhost resize]# ./resize2fs /dev/cciss/c0d0p3
> Performing an on-line resize of /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 to 873646828 (1k) blocks.
> ./resize2fs: Inappropriate ioctl for device While trying to add group #78125
> 
> /var/log/messages show:
> localhost kernel: JBD: resize2fs wants too many credits (3498 > 2048)
> 
> And filesystem grew from 485G to only 534G and not 800 and something G.

How big is your journal?  It seems it is only 8MB, which isn't large
enough to a resize 870GB filesystem.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.