Le mardi 30 janvier 2007 22:21, Pim Bliek a écrit : > Hi > > Since a couple of months I am running Etch on a new production server, > with the following specs: > > - kernel 2.6.18-smp package > - lvm 2.02.06-3 > - RAID5 on a 3Ware card (3w_9xxx) > > I want to grow my /var filesystem ONLINE. I can find tons of docs on > offline resizing, but I am not in the position to go into single user > and umount it. This is production. > > I took ext3 as the fs, since this is supposed to be able to resize > online. So I went (/var is now 4 GB): > > # lvextend -L 6G /dev/vg00/var > # resize2fs -p /dev/vg00/var > resize2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) > Filesystem at /dev/vg00/var is mounted on /var; on-line resizing required > old desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 1 > resize2fs: Kernel does not support online resizing > > I did fed this error to Google and it came up with nothing. Tried lots > of other combinations in Google to find a solution but cannot find it. > > I prefer not to build a custom kernel, and use modules of the standard > kernel-image package I am using instead (saves me a reboot) but if > there is no alternative I might consider it if that solves my problem > for the future resizes I might need. > > In future I will probably not be shrinking, only growing LV's and fs's. > > So... what is the trick to make this work? I cannot find it. > > Thanks in advance for any pointers, tricks and/or help! > Pim It works here. Anyway try the other command : ext2online
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