[linux-lvm] Q: Online resizing ext3 FS

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Goswin von Brederlow schrieb:
> Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> writes:

(...)

>> Yes, I tried to online resize a similar filesystem (600 MB to 1.2 TB)
>> and it didn't work.
>>
>> At some point, resize2fs would just exit with errors.
>> I tried to do it several times before I figured out what's missing;
>> sometimes, I interrupted the process with ctrl+c. No data loss
>> occurred.
>>
>> To do an online ext3 resize, the filesystem needs a "resize_inode"
>> feature. You can check the features with dumpe2fs:
> 
> So was that what you were missing or did some other error occur?
> 
> I tried to resize an fs without resize_inode and it just plain told me
> and abrted.

It was working for some time (15 or 30 minutes?), the fs grew a couple 
of gigabytes, and then it exited with an error. At first I thought it's 
because the fs might need fsck, but after I did fsck, it didn't help - 
next online tries didn't increase the fs anymore.


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