Goswin von Brederlow schrieb:
Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo wpkg org> writes:
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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.
-- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org