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I hate to bring this up, since this opinion was slapped down before, but:

This is exactly why we run even our root in a LVM volume group.  It's
simply not true that you *never* need to resize root, here's someone
else who needed to, and is having a PITA doing it.

Ideally, of course, you want to be at suse9/redhat4 or above, so you
can do an ext2online filesystem expansion, without taking the system
down.  Otherwise, even with volume groups, you still have to drop into
single user mode.

- -- Pat

Mark Post wrote:
> It turns out there's one more thing you need to do before running resize2fs 
> (assuming you did use DDR or dd to do the copying of the whole 
> minidisk/device).  The partition table will still say it is the old size.  
> You'll need to use fdasd to re-create the VTOC and delete all partitions 
> (option r), create a new partition spanning the whole space, then write the 
> new partition table out to disk.  After that, resize2fs should work (after 
> the mandatory e2fsck -f command).
>
> Simply trying to delete the old partition and then add a new one didn't work 
> for me (but I'm running an older copy of s390-tools on the system where I 
> tested this).
>
> Mark Post
>
>>>> Mark Post 05/09/07 7:44 PM >>>
>>>> On Wed, May 9, 2007 at 11:49 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich
> Smrcina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> How did you copy the root filesystem to a larger minidisk?
>>
>> Just using DDR won't work.
> -snip-
> It should if the system is down.  For example, add a minidisk to a guest, 
> take the guest down and IPL CMS, DDR the old to the new, bring back up the 
> guest.
>
>
> Mark Post
>
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