[linux-lvm] Q: Online resizing ext3 FS
Stuart D. Gathman
stuart at bmsi.com
Wed Sep 12 20:04:21 UTC 2007
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Hiren Joshi wrote:
> Has anyone of you been using ext2online to resize (large) ext3
> filesystems?
> I have to do it going from 500GB to 1TB on a productive system I was
> wondering if you have some horror/success stories.
> I'm using RHEL4/U4 (kernel 2.6.9) on this system.
This brings up an LVM related question I've had. Can I do this:
1) take snapshot of 500GB LV
2) resize source LV to 1TB
3) run ext2online
4a) resize succeeds - remove shapshot
4b) resize fails horribly - copy shapshot to LV and restart
4b.1) is there a way to "revert" the source LV to the snapshot?
(without allocating snapshot as big as source LV)
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