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Re: ql2300_conf
- From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>
- To: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant) Discussion List" <nahant-list redhat com>
- Subject: Re: ql2300_conf
- Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:24:12 +0100
> This is intersting. It would appear to be an oversight. RHEL4 includes
> ext2online which allows online resizing, but only supports growing a
> filesystem not shrinking it. I can only assume that not including
> resize2fs, which allows offline growing or shrinking a filesyste, was an
> oversight as it's included with RHEL3.
>
> My guess is someone thought "Why would we include two different resize
> tools?" not realizing that the online tool won't shrink a file system.
actually no; see the release notes... late in the cycle we found out
that resize2fs couldn't cope with filesystems that can be online grown
(where "couldn't cope" is "dataloss") so we had to pull it; it'll be
back once we fixed it and tested it well.
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