>> With the latest e2fsprogs and 2.6 kernels, the online resizing >> support has been merged in, and as long as the filesystem was >> created with space reserved for growing the filesystem (which is now >> the default, or if the filesystem has the off-line prepration step >> ext2prepare run on it), you can run resize2fs on a mounted >> filesystem and grow an ext2/3 filesystem on-line. And yes, you get >> more inodes as you add more disk blocks, using the original inode >> ratio that was established when the filesystem was created. > >Are all the necessary tools in and documented in e2fsprogs? > >It seems that finding all the bits and pieces to do ext3 on-line >expansion has been a study in obfuscation. Somewhat surprising since >this feature is a must for enterprise class storage management.
Enterprise will hardly use ext3 on the big ones, but one of the "more commercial" things. Jan Engelhardt --
