Aloha Jason,
I did just as you suggested. I clicked on the "Volumes" tab, then
followed the "Edit" link of my only volume. I saw the slider "New
volume size in MB" and ramped it up another 100 GB followed by a
clicking the "Change" button. I saw the number of extents increase in
the LV, but nothing with regards to the filesystem. Are there some log
files I can tail to watch for errors? I'd like to help debug this. I'd
feel bad if others are running into the same problem as I. Could this
failure to resize the ext3 filesystem be due in part to the size of my
filesystem? I would think not, but only want to be sure. You're fs
went from 4GB -> 6GB. I asked Openfiler to grow my fs from 300GB ->
400GB.
John
Jason Litka <jason <at> xoxide.com> writes: > > 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
On Jul 25, 2008, at 11:08 AM, John Call wrote:
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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