When resizing the LV you just dragged the little slider on the "Edit" page to the right (or typed in a number for the new size), correct? If so, it should have worked just fine.
I just tested the resize function on a VM and it had no problem resizing an ext3 test LV from 4GB to 6GB. I doubt the size of your LV had anything to do with it because if you were going to have a problem it probably wouldn't occur until 2TB... Jason Litka | Xoxide, Inc. Manager, IT & Software Development P: (610) 251-1672 x200 F: (610) 251-0263 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Call Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 5:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OF-users] Resize ext3 filesystem 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 _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
