On Sunday 02 March 2003 01:11 am, Alan wrote: > > I don't know of a way to remount a ext3 filesystem as ext2 > > "online". ext2online/ext2resize flatly refuse to do anything with a > > mounted ext3 filesystem. Anyone have a solution? > > By "online" I assume you mean mounted? Is there any reason that you > can't unmount the drive, or if it's your /, boot up with the livecd and > then run the program?
>From my somewhat limited knowledge of filesystems, I would think that attempting to extend a mounted (and probably active) filesystem on the fly is playing russian roulette with five loaded cylinders! I would presume, as the current poster suggests, the correct procedure would be: 1. Backup the filesystem. 2. Unmount the filesystem (use knoppix of the gentoo live cd, or whatever). 3. Perhaps remove the ext3 (just use ext2 for the filesystem). 4. Use whatever ext2 tools are provided to extend the filesystem. 5. Verify the results. 6. Convert the filesystem to ext3 again. Enjoy, -- Collins Richey - Denver Area Athlon-XP gentoo 1.4_rc2 kde 3.1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
