Re: [ext2resize] Large filesystem resize

[Benjamin S. <bs...@nt...>]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Yes, in the ext2resize "NEWS" file (maybe only in CVS, I can't remember
> if it went into the 1.1.17 release or not) there is a report from a user
> going from 150GB -> 240GB -> 463GB.  All went well.

  Must be in CVS, 'cause the NEWS file in 1.1.17 is empty.  :)  But it is
good to know this is not completely uncharted territory.

>> (2) Do the people familiar with ext2resize think it will work?
>
> Yes.  Granted that I don't get a lot of feedback on ext2resize ...

  When it comes to bug reports, I have discovered that "no news is good
news".  :-)

> The only recent emails have either been about the large_file issue (see
> below), or requests for ext2online for ext3.

  Well, we are not using the large_file feature, and we will be doing this
offline, so both of those are non-issues.

> To give yourself a comfort factor of to show ext2resize is doing
> something, I'd suggest running with "-v" or "-v -d".  The latter may be
> too verbose, but it would be very useful to have in case there are any
> problems ...

  Okay, I will do that -- useful tip.

> Deleting files you don't really need will speed things up ...

  Heh.  If we had files we didn't need, we wouldn't be adding 400 GB worth
of new disks!  :-)

> You will obviously want to do a full fsck before you do the resize ...

  I was planning on a full fsck before and after.  I definitely subscribe to
the "better safe than sorry" theory.  :)

> Also, in light of this you may want to consider using ext3 at some
> (near) later date to avoid extended outages.

  We have been considering that as well, but in almost two years of
operation, we have never had a system crash, so it has not been a pressing
need.

> Please let me know how things go, so I can add this report to the NEWS
> file for the next release.

  Will do.  Thanks for your help!

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