[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Add -f option to resize2fs -P in vfs_minimum_size.

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Jan 18 16:40:48 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 06:09:05PM +0300, Maxim Perevedentsev wrote:
> Sometimes the user wants to know minimum size
> for dirty (e.g. mounted) filesystems. In this case,
> resize2fs -P will require calling e2fsck -f, while
> "in general, it is not safe to run e2fsck on mounted filesystems".
> 
> Since resize2fs -P does not modify filesystem, we force it
> to display (probably approximate) minimum size.
> ---
>  daemon/ext2.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/daemon/ext2.c b/daemon/ext2.c
> index 898d066..9ba4f09 100644
> --- a/daemon/ext2.c
> +++ b/daemon/ext2.c
> @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ ext_minimum_size (const char *device)
>    long block_size;
>    const char *pattern = "Estimated minimum size of the filesystem: ";
> 
> -  r = command (&out, &err, str_resize2fs, "-P", device, NULL);
> +  r = command (&out, &err, str_resize2fs, "-P", "-f", device, NULL);
>    if (r == -1) {
>      reply_with_error ("%s", err);
>      return -1;
> --
> 1.8.3.1

ACK.

I'll push this one shortly, thanks.

Rich.

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