Matthew Kennedy wrote:
Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  
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?
    

Yes, reasons a plenty! Mostly -- I don't want the down time. To
unmount, I'd have to kill everything using the filesystem etc.
  
There are some services that cannot be down for some time (mail, http, etc).
Will be great if exist some application that permit resize the partition on a mounted FS (hot resize)

XFS has xfs_growfs which works on mounted volumes. I *think* resierfs
has something similar. ext2 has it as well.
At this moment, I can't find any utilitie for ext3 that permit resize the lv on a mounted fs.
On the reiser area, the reisize utilitie can't be used on a mounted fs.




Matt

  

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