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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
To: Alok Jain <jain.alok103@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: Grow ext4 filesystem on mounted device
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 13:29:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A735B112-0384-43F8-8F0F-CACFD34CEA67@dilger.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG-6nk9Cy6itStS917HxL7dvcy5=J+CCpSAqRoC9Um8P9LJ=kw@mail.gmail.com>

On Jul 2, 2020, at 13:18, Alok Jain <jain.alok103@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Experts,
> 
> I want to grow the ext4 file system on mounted device by running
> resize2fs utility but it fails, same works in case of unmounted FS
> with additional invocation of e2fsck utility.
> 
> This is what i am doing
> 
> 1)Rescanning the device
> echo "1" | sudo tee /sys/block/sdd/device/rescan
> 2) Extending the partition
> growpart /dev/sdd 1
> 3) resizing the file system
> resize2fs /dev/sdd1
> resize2fs 1.43-WIP (20-Jun-2013)
> The filesystem is already 43253499 blocks long.  Nothing to do!

What does "grep sdd1 /proc/partitions" show?  Is the kernel
aware of the larger partition size?

> parted -s /dev/sdd1 print free
> Model: Unknown (unknown)
> Disk /dev/sdd1: 177GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
> Partition Table: loop
> 
> Number  Start  End    Size   File system  Flags
> 1      0.00B  177GB  177GB  ext4
> 
> Any help?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alok

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-02 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-02 19:18 Grow ext4 filesystem on mounted device Alok Jain
2020-07-02 19:29 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2020-07-02 19:34   ` Alok Jain
2020-07-02 19:39     ` Alok Jain

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