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From: Andreas D. <ad...@cl...> - 2003-12-31 09:39:40
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On Dec 31, 2003 09:45 +0100, G=F6...@sm... wrote: > maybe I'm the last user of ext2/3 online resize stuff out there. > But I depend on that functionality (root-fs on LVM) and wonder what > the planes for the future are. > There was an announcement that ext2/3 online resize will be in 2.6.x, > but was later dropped. And the patches at sf.net are quite old. The > ext3-patch for 2.5.44 does not apply halfway clean to 2.6.0. And the > ext2-patch is never updated to 2.5.x. > Because of my very litte knowledge in 2.5.x fs stuff, I have not tried > to port the resize code myself. My understanding is that the ext3 online resize code is now in the RH 2.6 kernel. Arjan updated the patch for 2.6.0 and posted it to ext3-users or ext2-devel a month or two ago. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ |
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From: <det...@ki...> - 2003-12-31 08:44:57
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Hi Andreas, maybe I'm the last user of ext2/3 online resize stuff out there. But I depend on that functionality (root-fs on LVM) and wonder what the planes for the future are. There was an announcement that ext2/3 online resize will be in 2.6.x, but was later dropped. And the patches at sf.net are quite old. The ext3-patch for 2.5.44 does not apply halfway clean to 2.6.0. And the ext2-patch is never updated to 2.5.x. Because of my very litte knowledge in 2.5.x fs stuff, I have not tried to port the resize code myself. Cheers, Detlef |
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From: Xose V. P. <xo...@us...> - 2003-11-22 23:36:46
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Brian J. Murrell wrote: > Are there no system vendors out there that have requirements to resize > ext3 online that could sponser this work? Are they all resolved to > using filesystems that already support online resizing and abandoning > ext3? rh 2.6 experiental kernel has ext3 online resize patch since 17 Nov: http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5 -- HTML mails are going to trash automagically |
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From: Jonas S. <dr...@jo...> - 2003-10-15 12:44:05
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Hi, Andreas, you mention some months back, that=20 > If someone is interested in making a release (RPM, tarball) from what is > there, it would be much appreciated (I never seem to get around to doing= it). Am I correct in understanding this as you consider the current CVS as more stable than 1.1.17, and only lack of time/interest has stopped you from releasing it as 1.1.18? My reason for asking is that I am a Debian developer, and our distribution is preparing for a new release (which means no dramatic and experimental updates). If wanting to upgrade the quite old 1.1.17 in Debian to a CVS snapshot it would certainly help calm down stability-concerned fellow developers if I can quote you on the current state of affairs regarding this project. If you have more than a moment to respond to this, even better would be some notes on what currently works and what is known to not work. Or should we rather remove the package completely from the next release of Debian for safety reasons? I can help release a tarball of current CVS as 1.1.18 if you like, and have a sourceforge account lying around somewhere, but as I understand it you need to grant me write access to the ext2resize project to actually upload the tarball, right? - Jonas Official Debian developer --=20 * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er n=E6r: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm |
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From: Brian J. M. <br...@in...> - 2003-10-14 12:35:27
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Hello Andreas, On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 18:23, Andreas Dilger wrote: > To be honest, my ability to work on this project has diminished to the > point where it is basically unmaintained. Sad to hear but understandable, indeed. > I'd love for someone to take > the whole project over and do the remaining 5% of the work needed to get > it into the 2.4 kernel. As much as I'd love to, if for nothing else, to get an opportunity to learn filesystem internals (never mind having online-resizable ext3 filesystems), I'm afraid I'm in the same boat as you though, no time. > There is completed support for resizing ext3 filesystems in CVS, and all > it needs is likely a small update to the latest 2.4 kernel. But would it get accepted into 2.4 without a maintainer? > There was some > work done to implement online resizing for ext3 in 2.5 kernels, but that > is old enough that it probably needs a fair amount of work/testing to get > it going again. :-( I had been forced to convert a couple of filesystems to reiserfs on various systems due to (relatively) frequent online resizing needs, but had been holding out on the rest for online-resizable ext3. I guess I will have to rethink that. Are there no system vendors out there that have requirements to resize ext3 online that could sponser this work? Are they all resolved to using filesystems that already support online resizing and abandoning ext3? b. --=20 My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell |
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From: Andreas D. <ad...@cl...> - 2003-10-13 22:24:30
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On Oct 13, 2003 15:05 -0700, Per Nystrom wrote: > What are the plans for this project? I'm on Redhat 9 using LVM and ext3 > filesystems, and it looks like ext2resize was dropped from Redhat > sometime during the 7.x series. The thing is, I haven't found any > effective replacement that can resize mounted ext3 filesystems. One of > the most useful features of LVM is its ability to manipulate the size of > devices while they are mounted. To be honest, my ability to work on this project has diminished to the point where it is basically unmaintained. I'd love for someone to take the whole project over and do the remaining 5% of the work needed to get it into the 2.4 kernel. > Are there plans to officially support ext3? Is there another project > I'm unaware of that already allows resizing of mounted ext3 > filesystems? Or is it time to look at some other filesystem that > already has that support, such as reiser or xfs? There is completed support for resizing ext3 filesystems in CVS, and all it needs is likely a small update to the latest 2.4 kernel. There was some work done to implement online resizing for ext3 in 2.5 kernels, but that is old enough that it probably needs a fair amount of work/testing to get it going again. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ |
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From: Per N. <ce...@ne...> - 2003-10-13 22:05:16
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Hi, What are the plans for this project? I'm on Redhat 9 using LVM and ext3 filesystems, and it looks like ext2resize was dropped from Redhat sometime during the 7.x series. The thing is, I haven't found any effective replacement that can resize mounted ext3 filesystems. One of the most useful features of LVM is its ability to manipulate the size of devices while they are mounted. Are there plans to officially support ext3? Is there another project I'm unaware of that already allows resizing of mounted ext3 filesystems? Or is it time to look at some other filesystem that already has that support, such as reiser or xfs? Thanks, Per |
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From: Andreas D. <ad...@cl...> - 2003-09-05 20:09:32
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On Sep 05, 2003 09:52 -0300, Eric Biagioli wrote: > I've installed both linux and windows in my PC. When I made the partitions, I > used all the hard disk space among one swap parition (linux), one native > partition (linux), and one FAT partition (windows). Now, I've to enlarge the > windows partition but I don't know what I'm supposed to do... Get GNU parted - it will do this for you. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ |
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From: Eric B. <eb...@kn...> - 2003-09-05 18:52:33
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Hello, I'm new at linux, and I'm having the following problem: I've installed both linux and windows in my PC. When I made the partitions, I used all the hard disk space among one swap parition (linux), one native partition (linux), and one FAT partition (windows). Now, I've to enlarge the windows partition but I don't know what I'm supposed to do... Thanks, Eric Biagioli ------------------------------------------------- Servicio Webmail de Knett (http://www.knett.com.ar) |
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From: Andreas D. <ad...@cl...> - 2003-08-28 19:09:54
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On Aug 28, 2003 12:38 -0600, Eric wrote: > on Redhat 8 I want to resize my partitions. I ghosted from a 2G to a 4G > drive now have space to put into home or whatever. > can I use ext2resize as is on this or are there patches I would need. and > how safe is the move? If you have more than one partition, ext2resize is not going to help you, because it doesn't deal with partition tables or moving filesystems around. You should use GNU gpart for that. It uses the same code as ext2resize, but also has support for changing the partition table and moving filesystems. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ |
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From: Eric <er...@ki...> - 2003-08-28 18:32:34
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on Redhat 8 I want to resize my partitions. I ghosted from a 2G to a 4G drive now have space to put into home or whatever. can I use ext2resize as is on this or are there patches I would need. and how safe is the move? Eric |
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From: K.L C. <ch...@ho...> - 2003-08-06 15:41:29
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Hi Andreas, the version i downloaded from Sourceforge CVS is the same as the one i got from the link from the web. Can you show me the direct link or even attach it into the reply mail? You great help is highly appreciated!! Thanks in advance. rgds, Lun. >From: Andreas Dilger <ad...@cl...> >To: "K.L Cheung" <ch...@ho...> >CC: ext...@li... >Subject: Re: [ext2resize] ext2resize failed: "ext2_open: fs has unsupported >feature(s) enabled" >Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:14:07 -0600 > >On Jul 28, 2003 17:36 +0800, K.L Cheung wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > After i applied the kernel patch and try ext2online, I got exactly >the > > same error as previous post at > > >http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=632456&group_id=3834&atid=303834 > > > > In short, here is what i received: > > > > prompt> ext2online -v -d /tmp/file > > ext2online v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b > > ext2_open > > ext2online: ext2_open: fs has unsupported feature(s) enabled:ext2online: > > can't open /tmp/file > > > > Seems solution can be found from the maillist. > > Can anyone give me a hand please? > >Please use version from Sourceforge CVS. > >If someone is interested in making a release (RPM, tarball) from what is >there, it would be much appreciated (I never seem to get around to doing >it). > >Cheers, Andreas >-- >Andreas Dilger >http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ >http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > _________________________________________________________________ Linguaphone : Learning English? Get Japanese lessons for FREE http://go.msnserver.com/HK/30476.asp |
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From: K.L C. <ch...@ho...> - 2003-07-28 19:43:59
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Thanks Adilger, I have just applied the patch from CVS download from the link: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ext2resize/ext2resize/patches/online-ext3-2.4.18.diff?rev=1.11&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Unluckily, seems not working and same error prompt. Any possible cause for this pls? >From: Andreas Dilger <ad...@cl...> >To: "K.L Cheung" <ch...@ho...> >CC: ext...@li... >Subject: Re: [ext2resize] ext2resize failed: "ext2_open: fs has unsupported >feature(s) enabled" >Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:14:07 -0600 > >On Jul 28, 2003 17:36 +0800, K.L Cheung wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > After i applied the kernel patch and try ext2online, I got exactly >the > > same error as previous post at > > >http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=632456&group_id=3834&atid=303834 > > > > In short, here is what i received: > > > > prompt> ext2online -v -d /tmp/file > > ext2online v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b > > ext2_open > > ext2online: ext2_open: fs has unsupported feature(s) enabled:ext2online: > > can't open /tmp/file > > > > Seems solution can be found from the maillist. > > Can anyone give me a hand please? > >Please use version from Sourceforge CVS. > >If someone is interested in making a release (RPM, tarball) from what is >there, it would be much appreciated (I never seem to get around to doing >it). > >Cheers, Andreas >-- >Andreas Dilger >http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ >http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > _________________________________________________________________ Linguaphone : Learn English and get 15 Putonghua lessons FREE http://go.msnserver.com/HK/29444.asp |
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From: Andreas D. <ad...@cl...> - 2003-07-28 16:14:20
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On Jul 28, 2003 17:36 +0800, K.L Cheung wrote: > Hi there, > > After i applied the kernel patch and try ext2online, I got exactly the > same error as previous post at > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=632456&group_id=3834&atid=303834 > > In short, here is what i received: > > prompt> ext2online -v -d /tmp/file > ext2online v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b > ext2_open > ext2online: ext2_open: fs has unsupported feature(s) enabled:ext2online: > can't open /tmp/file > > Seems solution can be found from the maillist. > Can anyone give me a hand please? Please use version from Sourceforge CVS. If someone is interested in making a release (RPM, tarball) from what is there, it would be much appreciated (I never seem to get around to doing it). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ |
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From: K.L C. <ch...@ho...> - 2003-07-28 09:36:31
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Hi there,
After i applied the kernel patch and try ext2online, I got exactly the
same error as previous post at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=632456&group_id=3834&atid=303834
In short, here is what i received:
prompt> ext2online -v -d /tmp/file
ext2online v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b
ext2_open
ext2online: ext2_open: fs has unsupported feature(s) enabled:ext2online:
can't open /tmp/file
Seems solution can be found from the maillist.
Can anyone give me a hand please?
_________________________________________________________________
Linguaphone : Learn English and get 15 Putonghua lessons FREE
http://go.msnserver.com/HK/29444.asp
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From: Xose V. P. <xo...@wa...> - 2003-05-28 00:57:17
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Andreas Dilger wrote: > On May 27, 2003 04:08 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > >>will 2.5.xx have online resize support on an nearly future ? >>or is it for 2.7? > > As with ext2resize, it is currently on the back-burner for me. I got > a 2.5.something patch working (just before the "Halloween freeze"), > and since then the whole kernel has been rewritten. If you are interested, > the patch is in CVS and on the SF "patches" tracker as a starting point. > I am not currently running 2.5 on any of my systems, so it isn't really > easy for me to test.no, my systems run 2.4 too. 2.5 is too much experimental. no, my systems run 2.4 too. 2.5 is too much experimental. I was interested how was the ext2resize 2.5 state after I had seen a entry at http://kernelnewbies.org/status/latest.html "o before 2.6.0 ext2/ext3 online resize support (Andreas Dilger)" -thanks- regards, -- Software is like sex, it's better when it's bug free. |
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From: Andreas D. <ad...@cl...> - 2003-05-27 03:39:30
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On May 27, 2003 04:08 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > will 2.5.xx have online resize support on an nearly future ? > or is it for 2.7? As with ext2resize, it is currently on the back-burner for me. I got a 2.5.something patch working (just before the "Halloween freeze"), and since then the whole kernel has been rewritten. If you are interested, the patch is in CVS and on the SF "patches" tracker as a starting point. I am not currently running 2.5 on any of my systems, so it isn't really easy for me to test. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ |
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From: Xose V. P. <xo...@wa...> - 2003-05-27 02:08:45
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hi, will 2.5.xx have online resize support on an nearly future ? or is it for 2.7? -thanks- regards, -- Software is like sex, it's better when it's bug free. |
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From: Andreas D. <ad...@cl...> - 2003-04-13 16:31:41
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On Apr 13, 2003 01:51 -0400, ei...@th... wrote: > I'm writing up documentation for "how to turn a Martian NetDrive into > an OpenAFS server", and one of the steps is, simply, > > boot to single user mode > ext2resize / 4G > reboot > > Now, this *worked* for me, but on looking at some of the docs, I have > a couple of questions. > > 1) / is actually an ext3 partion, not ext2. However, having been > unmounted cleanly, the journal should be empty, so it should be > identical in that regard. Is this actually true, or did I just get > lucky, and should I tell people to delete the journal, remount as > ext2, resize, then tune2fs -j and make it ext3 again? This is OK to do on an ext3 filesystem. As you say, the journal is empty after a clean shutdown/unmount, so there is no problem with this. If it wasn't cleanly shut down, there would be an extra flag "needs_recovery" that signals data in the journal and ext2resize would refuse to resize. > 2) I didn't rerun lilo. I suspect that since the partition in > question had around 1G of data on it, that there was simply nothing > beyond the cut-off point, so nothing had to be moved. Correct. > a) is that true, that in that case nothing would move? Yes. > b) would -v be enough to find out if it moved something, namely the kernel? > c) should I tell people to re-run lilo anyway? Couldn't hurt, but unnecessary. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ |
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From: <ei...@th...> - 2003-04-13 05:51:34
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I'm writing up documentation for "how to turn a Martian NetDrive into an OpenAFS server", and one of the steps is, simply, boot to single user mode ext2resize / 4G reboot Now, this *worked* for me, but on looking at some of the docs, I have a couple of questions. 1) / is actually an ext3 partion, not ext2. However, having been unmounted cleanly, the journal should be empty, so it should be identical in that regard. Is this actually true, or did I just get lucky, and should I tell people to delete the journal, remount as ext2, resize, then tune2fs -j and make it ext3 again? 2) I didn't rerun lilo. I suspect that since the partition in question had around 1G of data on it, that there was simply nothing beyond the cut-off point, so nothing had to be moved. a) is that true, that in that case nothing would move? b) would -v be enough to find out if it moved something, namely the kernel? c) should I tell people to re-run lilo anyway? Thanks. (I'd be happy if some better hints about this made it into the man page, but I don't see anything in the docs under debian ext2resize 1.1.17-3.) _Mark_ <ei...@th...> The Herd Of Kittens |
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From: Maurice M. <rm...@Fh...> - 2003-04-07 05:17:39
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hi, > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 10:12:07PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > On Apr 06, 2003 01:56 +0200, Maurice Massar wrote: > > > what is the current status of big-endian support in ext2resize? > > > > No effort has been made in that direction yet. > > GNU Parted (which contains a fork of ext2resize) has BE support. > It lacks some other features that ext2resize has, though. "other features" == online resizing? well, what about resizext2? cu maurice |
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From: Andrew C. <cl...@gn...> - 2003-04-07 05:14:17
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On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 10:12:07PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Apr 06, 2003 01:56 +0200, Maurice Massar wrote: > > what is the current status of big-endian support in ext2resize? > > No effort has been made in that direction yet. GNU Parted (which contains a fork of ext2resize) has BE support. It lacks some other features that ext2resize has, though. Cheers, Andrew |
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From: Andreas D. <ad...@cl...> - 2003-04-06 05:12:32
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On Apr 06, 2003 01:56 +0200, Maurice Massar wrote: > what is the current status of big-endian support in ext2resize? No effort has been made in that direction yet. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ |
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From: Maurice M. <rm...@Fh...> - 2003-04-05 23:56:34
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hi, what is the current status of big-endian support in ext2resize? cu maurice |
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From: Brian J. M. <b20...@in...> - 2003-03-29 18:07:18
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Hello all.
I just had to make a new ext2resize from CVS because the 1.1.17 that's
shipping with my vendor's distro doesn't support some of ext2/3's
newer features. No fear however.
But this reminds me that recently, my distro vendor, Mandrake,
officially endorsed resize2fs over ext2resize for the simple reason
that resize2fs was in the e2fsprogs package and ext2resize is not. In
fact they recently move the ext2resize-1.1.17-1mdk.i586 package from
their "main" distribution to their "contrib" distribution with the
following notice:
> better tool in e2fsprogs
>=20
> These packages has been moved from cooker main to cooker contrib:
>=20
> - ext2resize-1.1.17-1mdk.i586
> - ext2resize-1.1.17-1mdk.src
I asked which tool it was that was better and the response was:
> tv@vador ~ $ rpm -ql e2fsprogs-1.32-2mdk | fgrep resiz
> /sbin/resize2fs
> /usr/share/man/man8/resize2fs.8.bz2
>
> try ext2resize on a fs with bad blocks, features it did not know,
> ...
> whereas with resize2fs, you can expect it to be updated when other
> e2fs tools're for a new feature...
Additionally this was the "note" that was sent out along with the
Mandrake ext2resize-1.1.17-1mdk package:
WARNING: you should probably use resize2fs from e2fsprogs
which is more robust.
So the lagging release of an updated ext2resize package (that deals
with features in recent ext2/3 filesystems) and the "theory" that
because resize2fs is part of the "official" ext2/ext3 "project" it is
more likely to be up to date and compatible with ext2/3 seems to be
hurting ext2resize.
So what is the future for the ext[2|3][resize|online] tools? Is all
of the needed kernel support for resizing ext3 filesystems online
going to be in the 2.6 kernel? Are there any plans to try to get it
into a 2.4 release?
Are the ext[2|3]online tool(s) going to be the "official" tool for
resizing ext2/3 filesystems online? Will they be merged into
e2fsprogs any time soon?
b.
--=20
Brian J. Murrell
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