>>> On Sun, Sep 9, 2007 at  6:02 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Stricklin, Raymond J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> We didn't have the tools in SLES9 to resize an EXT3 filesystem without
> unmounting it. They are finally present in SLES10, but I found this
> beautiful little bombshell in the manual page for ext2online:
> 
>       The ext2resize programs do not work on big-endian machines
> (Alpha, SPARC, PPC, etc).
> 
> "etc." would include other architectures, for example s390 and s390x.
> Good thing I checked the documentation before I tried to use it. Anybody
> want to comment?

According to our kernel developers, this seems to be a documentation bug.  
They're double-checking with the PPC developers, just to make sure.  Based on 
the other responses to your note, I would say they're right.


Mark Post

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