Re: [ext2resize] ext2prepare corrupts ext3 file systems

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

On May 21, 2006  08:58 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> When using ext2prepare to make sure a ext3 file system is online
> resizable, e2fsck find errors in the file system after the conversion.
> Anyone know what is going on here?

That's because ext2prepare was never updated to support the "new" ext3
resize inode format.  There was actually a patch posted on ext2-devel
which may fix this from Takashi Sato, but I haven't had time to look
at it yet:

[Ext2-devel] [RFC][17/21]ext2resize fix resize_inode format

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