[linux-lvm] resize LV

Alexander Lazarevich alazarev at itg.uiuc.edu
Tue Jan 28 15:43:01 UTC 2003


awesome links, thanks.

any word on if the 2.6 kernel will also add support for resizing ext3 
mounted filesystems? all it talks about on the site is ext2. but ext3 is 
just ext2 with a journal, right? so it should work for ext3 as well, 
right?

alex

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Greg Freemyer wrote:

>  >>  JFS can totally do it. I've been using AIX before we moved to Linux, and I
>  >>  
>  >>  did it all the time.
> 
>  >>  There must be a way to do it on linux systems using ext3. Anyone?
> 
>  >>  Alex
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>  >>  Alex Lazarevich | Systems | Imaging Technology Group
>  >>  alazarev at itg.uiuc.edu | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu
>  >>  ---    
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> There is a project just for ext2 online resizing: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
> 
> The actual patches are at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ext2resize/ext2resize/patches/
> 
> And it is on the todo list for the pre-2.6.0 kernel release, so as at some point it will be in the vanilla kernel. http://kernelnewbies.org/status/latest.html
> 
> Greg Freemyer
> 
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