On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 15:44 -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > > > Anything that doesn't have a showstopping-type bug filed against it in > > sid moves to testing after a week, as I understand it. You might check > > bugs.d.o for information. Is there something in particular you need > > from 27, 28, or 29? > > ext4 that doesn't cause the system to lock up after resizing?
I've just created a wiki page about Ext4. Contribution, feedback and ideas are welcome: http://wiki.debian.org/Ext4 FWIW: * Resizing ext3 is ok * Resising ext4 needs special attention: - Use a kernel >= 2.6.30 (http://lwn.net/Articles/326708/) or - Read Ubuntu's release notes (quoted below) seems to provide a workaround. --> Has anyone tested it in Debian >=Testing ?? Ubuntu's release note abstracts: > The resize2fs tool may cause data loss when growing or shrinking ext4 > filesystems off-line. See this mail from the upstream maintainer for > more details. Unfortunately we became aware of this too late to fix it > in Ubuntu 9.04. If you wish to resize an ext4 filesystem using the > tools in Ubuntu 9.04, you may be able to work around these problems by > first disabling the flex_bg and uninit_bg features (do not attempt > this on a mounted filesystem!): > > tune2fs -O ^flex_bg,^uninit_bg /dev/DEVICE_NAME > e2fsck /dev/DEVICE_NAME > > However, we still strongly recommend taking significantly more care > with backups than usual before attempting to resize an ext4 > filesystem. Franklin -- Stop Software Patents - http://ffii.org/ Sign the petition at http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org