From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l8IHvteG021646 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:57:55 -0400 Received: from gaimboi.tmr.com (mail.tmr.com [64.65.253.246]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l8IHvqru014641 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:57:53 -0400 Message-ID: <46F0125B.6020605@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:00:59 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Q: Online resizing ext3 FS References: <20070912163621.1f951876@slopi> <46E7FE32.7010404@wpkg.org> <87ejh2n2kk.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> In-Reply-To: <87ejh2n2kk.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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" To: Goswin von Brederlow Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, LVM general discussion and development Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Tomasz Chmielewski writes: > > >> Chris Osicki schrieb: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I apologize in advance for asking a question not really appropriate >>> for this mailing list, but I couldn't find a better place with lots of >>> people managing lots of disk space. >>> >>> The question: >>> 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. >>> > > That kernel seems to be a bit old. Better upgrade first. > You don't upgrade when using the stable releases... that's the whole idea, you don't have to worry about a new versions of anything, the bugs and security issues are backported, but the version stays the same. Highly desirable for "must work" systems, no so nice for doing cutting edge stuff using nice features you don't have. :-( -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Q: Online resizing ext3 FS Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:00:59 -0400 Message-ID: <46F0125B.6020605@tmr.com> References: <20070912163621.1f951876@slopi> <46E7FE32.7010404@wpkg.org> <87ejh2n2kk.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87ejh2n2kk.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Goswin von Brederlow Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski , LVM general discussion and development , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Tomasz Chmielewski writes: > > >> Chris Osicki schrieb: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I apologize in advance for asking a question not really appropriate >>> for this mailing list, but I couldn't find a better place with lots of >>> people managing lots of disk space. >>> >>> The question: >>> 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. >>> > > That kernel seems to be a bit old. Better upgrade first. > You don't upgrade when using the stable releases... that's the whole idea, you don't have to worry about a new versions of anything, the bugs and security issues are backported, but the version stays the same. Highly desirable for "must work" systems, no so nice for doing cutting edge stuff using nice features you don't have. :-( -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979