Aloha list,
I recently installed Openfiler release 2.3 from livecd into a VMware
ESX VM and have been very pleased with the web interface and
features. I created a 8GB .vmdk file to store the /boot, /, and swap
partitions. I mapped a 1TB RDM (raw LUN) to the virtual machine where
I intend on keeping all of my user data. Rather than create one large
filesystem, I created a 1TB partition to be a physical volume and have
made a volume group which contained a 300GB logical volume. Things
were working great until I ran out of space in my logical volume. I
saw that the web-ui allows me to extend the logical volume, but not
the ext3 filesystem. I went ahead and extended the lv to include
another 100GB of extents.
I've done some searching through this list's archive and it seems that
resizing filesystems used to be supported via the webui
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.openfiler.user/502/match=ext3+resize
Is this still the case and I'm not looking in the right places? or is
filesystem resizing only intended to be done from the command-line?
Ultimately I hacked through ext2online, ext2resize, and resize2fs in
order to take advantage of the extents that were added to my logical
volume, but not recognized by the filesystem. On a second note, I
wasn't able to use ext2online because of errors about "inode table has
offset <something> when it should be <somethingelse>". I ran
fsck.ext3 with the filesystem unmounted, which didn't help.
Ultimately my command-line wanderings led me to a combination of
"e2fsck -f /dev/vg/lv" and "resize2fs /dev/vg/lv" while the volume was
offline.
I'd like to know if resizing ext3 filesystems is supposed to be
supported while online. Maybe I just have a screwy SAN or something
which prevented me from doing so. I'd also like to know if resizing
filesystems is possible via the web-interface.
Thanks in advance,
John
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