Hello,

Why haven't you used resize2fs ?



On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Syn, Joonho <[email protected]> wrote:

> Apologies in advance for the long mail:
> 2 mail servers running these services via heartbeat
> -mount by label mail-store
> -shared ip
> -postfix
> -http
> -mailman
>
> was attempting to increase the size of the shared partition using the below
> procedure but when trying to fsck the disk I got bad superblocks.
>
> -stop heartbeat services on standby node
> -stop heartbeat services on active node (which should stop all services in
> order, including unmounting of the shared partition)
> -increase size of partition on san
> -rescan iscsi node on standby node
> -rescan iscsi node on formerly active node
> -remove the journal of the ext3 partition "tune2fs –O ^has_journal [my
> device]"
> -delete and recreate the partition using fdisk
> -check the newly expanded partition for errors "fsck –n [my device]
>
> At this point the fsck returned a "bad superblock error".  I tested using a
> similar setup but without heartbeat and did not get any corruption.  Any
> ideas as to what led to my bad superblocks?
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Jonathan Gibert
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