From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Chmielewski Subject: how to online resize ext3 when fs does not support it? Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:48:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4868AC09.7050101@wpkg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LKML Return-path: Received: from mx03.syneticon.net ([87.79.32.166]:2543 "EHLO mx03.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754082AbYF3J4B (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:56:01 -0400 Received: from localhost (filter1.syneticon.net [192.168.113.3]) by mx03.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B881A9453 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:49:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mx03.syneticon.net ([192.168.113.4]) by localhost (mx03.syneticon.net [192.168.113.3]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTP id MA-AeiqoNzMk for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:48:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.10.145] (koln-4d0b6c63.pool.mediaWays.net [77.11.108.99]) by mx03.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:48:57 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I have a fairly large ext3 filesystem created some time ago, which doesn't support online resizing. # resize2fs -p /dev/sdaz resize2fs 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007) Filesystem at /dev/sdaz is mounted on /mnt/iscsi_backup; on-line resizing required old desc_blocks = 77, new_desc_blocks = 87 resize2fs: Filesystem does not support online resizing Is is possible to add resize_inode feature to an existing ext3 filesystem? My tune2fs manual (from e2fsprogs 1.40.2) doesn't state adding "resize_inode" is possible, and newer e2fsprogs releases only support removing resize_inode feature. Will adding resize_inode be supported in the future, or is it definitely "is not, won't be possible"? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org