On Jan 31, 2008 9:43 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Kirk Lowery wrote:
> I'm adding a 500GB drive to my (Fedora 8) desktop and want to extend
> the root file system (journaled ext3) to use the new drive.
>
> I've been reading all the FAQs and HOWTOs, and they mention the
> program ext2online for the final step in the process. But I can't find
> it anywhere. Is there a package that needs installing?
resize2fs has obsoleted it.
Ah. That explains it.
Reading the man page on resize2fs, it notes: "As of this writing, the
Linux 2.6 kernel supports on-line resize for filesystems mounted
using ext3 only." Yet when I used the LVM GUI app, it choked at this
step, saying it couldn't unmount the root filesystem. That's
understandable, but it raises the question: can one use resize2fs from
a commandline while running fedora with the root filesystem mounted?
Kirk