From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx2.redhat.com (mx2.redhat.com [10.255.15.25]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l1DAR3Hl013578 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:27:04 -0500 Received: from percy.comedia.it (percy.comedia.it [212.97.59.71]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l1DAQxTh003285 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:27:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:26:57 +0100 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Extending the Root Volume with LVM Message-ID: <20070213102657.GD16573@percy.comedia.it> References: <682963.73875.qm@web38214.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <682963.73875.qm@web38214.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@redhat.com On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:11:30PM -0800, Sean McGlynn wrote: > > >I am working with >RHEL 4 Update 4. When initially installing the OS I allowed the installation to ... >Now, as an >experiment, I am attempting to extend the volume group and logical volume on >which root is mounted. Everything appeared to be going smoothly (extending the >VG, extending the LV, doing a vgchange, and then a lvm lvchange), but I am now >at the point where I want to run e2fsck to check the file system and resize2fs >to resize the files system to realize the added space, and I can't do either >because the volume is mounted, and cannot be unmounted. > >I've read a few you probablu missed to "read the fine manual(TM)" provided with your rhel. or the fine release notes rhel 4 supports online resize of filesystem, check the man page of ext2online to find more. L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \