Newer versions of the kernel support online resizing of ext3. To be specific, 2.6.7 and newer allow you to do it [1], which sadly means you won't be able to do it with SLES 9. SLES 10, RHEL 4 and newer should all support it.
[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/89560/ ks On 7/31/07, Jerry Whitteridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm working on building our environment to use LVM so as to be able to > expand/resize filesystems dynamically. I'm having an issue with what to > use to resize the filesystem itself. So far I have been using lvextend > to do the LV (which works fine) but using resize2fs to do the filesystem > (formated as ext3) . > > resize2fs on my system will only work on unmounted filesystems -- I find > references to ext2online and other utilities on the web -- is there > anything equivalent for us -- Running SLES9 SP3 currently ? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
