Re: Size of journal and resize

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct redhat com>]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:22:55PM +0100, Du?ko Rusmir wrote:
 
> I have some large Partiton at 2 GB, 4 GB, 7 GB, 13 GB,  25 GB.  How 
> big I need the journal for its?

The default should be fine: the necessary journal size has nothing to
do with the total filesystem size (and my largest ext3 is well over
25GB).

> Could I resize ext3fs with resize2fs,  ext2resize-1.17 (with 
> ext2prepare, ext2online), parted-1.4.21 Tools?

parted should work just fine.

> The Partititons Magic 5.0 I can't use with ext3 only with ext2.

Yes; you need to down-convert ext3 back to ext2 to run PM on it.

Cheers,
 Stephen