From: "Hanno Böck" <hanno@hboeck.de>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: theodore.tso@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] e2fsprogs/resize2fs: allow online resizing with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED disabled
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:05:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260613110507.67289f68@hboeck.de> (raw)
Kernels since version 6.8 have an option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED
that, if disabled, prevents accidental writes to and data corruption of
mounted devices.
This breaks online resizing with resize2fs, as it opens the device with
O_RDWR. However, it appears that this is not necessary and by changing
it to O_RDONLY, online resizing works again.
See also: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/796881
Signed-off-by: Hanno Böck <hanno@hboeck.de>
--- a/resize/main.c 2026-03-06 18:17:36.000000000 +0100
+++ b/resize/main.c 2026-06-13 10:53:46.165030199 +0200
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ int main (int argc, char ** argv)
int force_min_size = 0;
int print_min_size = 0;
int fd, ret;
- int open_flags = O_RDWR;
+ int open_flags = O_RDONLY;
blk64_t new_size = 0;
blk64_t max_size = 0;
blk64_t min_size = 0;
@@ -364,9 +364,6 @@ int main (int argc, char ** argv)
len = 2 * len;
}
- if (print_min_size)
- open_flags = O_RDONLY;
-
fd = ext2fs_open_file(device_name, open_flags, 0);
if (fd < 0) {
com_err("open", errno, _("while opening %s"),
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2026-06-13 9:05 Hanno Böck [this message]
2026-06-13 15:41 ` [PATCH] e2fsprogs/resize2fs: allow online resizing with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED disabled Theodore Tso
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