RE: Enlarge ext3 Logical Volume (Filesystem) in a volume group (LVM)

[Pluton Jacques <jacques duplessis videotron ca>]

Great News . At Last !
Hopefully they will include it in the Enterprise Server
Thank you !
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Dilger [mailto:adilger clusterfs com] 
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:23 AM
To: Per Andreas Buer
Cc: Jacques Duplessis; ext3-users redhat com
Subject: Re: Enlarge ext3 Logical Volume (Filesystem) in a volume group
(LVM)

Jacques Duplessis <jacques duplessis videotron ca> writes:
> Anybody know a way to enlarge a filesystem ext3 without having to 
> unmounted it, when they are still space left in the volume group (when 
> using LVM) ?
>
> I will be running large production linux system running Oracle. 
> I can't stop the database everytime I have to enlarge a filesystem.

I think the ext3 online resizing patches are now in the 2.6-mm kernel tree
(thanks to Stephen Tweedie) and new patches/tools are available for download
at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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