On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:39:53PM -0600, Corey Edwards wrote:
> 
> Interesting, but still not gonna work (for me).
> 
>         GNU ext2resize is a package which allows resizing ext2 and ext3
>         filesystems (both shrinking and growing). The ext2resize tool is
>         for resizing unmounted filesystems, and ext2online is for
>         growing a mounted filesystem (it needs a kernel patch to work,
>         however).
> 
> Compiling and installing into new kernel is going to take a lot longer
> than unmounting. Maybe if it was merged into into the kernel and the
> standard ext3 tools. But since it hasn't been updated since 2004, that
> seems unlikely. I stand by my claim of unpossible.
> 

The kernel patch was merged into 2.6.12, I believe.

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