Red Hat ES 5 - missing ext2online command

Andrei Pascal andrei at romsym.ro
Sun May 13 14:23:59 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 10:02 -0400, Anne wrote:
>  Hi All ~
> 
> Does anyone know what Red Hat decided to replace the ext2online utility
> with?
> 
> I have a bunch of Logical Volume's I need to extend, and in the past, one
> always had to run the ext2online utility to allow this expansion of logical
> Volume's. But..., this tool no longer exists on Red Hat ES 5. 

Hi Anne,

ext2online's functions have been included in resize2fs. Ext3 FS's can be
still extended online, however, reducing the filesystems is still
available only offline.


HTH,
Andrei




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