[ext2resize] Re: [Ext2-devel] current status of online resizing

[Andreas D. <ad...@cl...>]

On Aug 23, 2005  13:42 -0300, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> I'm starting to go trough the online resizing code for ext3, but I'm
> having some troubles with it. It would be nice if someone could point me
> the right direction. Maybe I'm doing something silly at all...
> 
> Let me by now just describe what I'm doing, and which results I'm getting.
> 
> I first tried the ext2online userspace tool, but got no success with it.
> It returned me the error message bellow:
> 
> ext2online: ext2_open: fs has unsupported feature(s) enabled:ext2online:
> can't open /home/glauber/teste

If you are using the latest e2fsprogs it should have proper support
for online resizing (ext2online is part of e2fsprogs).

> 1) the resize option was not even being parsed, and so I changed the
> code in super.c to be like this:
>         {Opt_resize, "resize=%u"},
> 				{Opt_err, NULL},

I just noticed this myself recently.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.