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Re: partman: please create ext3 file systems with online resize support



[Goswin von Brederlow]
> 100GiB is either way to high (for my 200MB / partition) or way too
> low (for my 1TiB data partition). I think the value should be less
> than 16TiB (maximum size) and no more than 10 times the filesystem
> size.

Yeah.  I read from the mke2fs manual page that -O resize_inode set the
max-size to 1024 times the current size.  That might be an OK default
for ext2prepare as well.  Perhaps it should be patched to make that
argument optional, and use 1024 * current size in that case.  Patches
most welcome. :)

> It would probably be worth a patch to mke2fs to output in D-I
> progress format though instead of parsing the current output and
> translating that.

Yes.  But I am not sure if such patch would make it into etch in time. :)

> But all of this won't remove the need for ext2prepare. Afaik there
> is no option for mke2fs to build a filesystem already perpared for
> resizing.

Are you aware of the -O resize_inode option to mk32fs, currently the
default for mke2fs?



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