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Re: Resizing an ext3 FS with parted ?
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: Resizing an ext3 FS with parted ? |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:13:58 +1100 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:57:01PM +0100, David Balazic wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I noticed some confusing things using parted-1.4.16-8 on a RHL7.2/i386 system.
>
> If I resize the root FS ( type is ext3 ) then it looks like everything went
> fine.
> But I really doubt that on-line resizing works !
> (this was on a normally booted system )
You *really* resized a mounted partition?! ouch
Pure luck if you don't get major corruption.
Are you sure it was mounted?! (Parted should have complained)
> On another occasion, when trying to resize a mounted ext3 partition, parted
> gives a warning:
> Warning: Partition is being used
> ( I booted with the admin-CD 7.2 , mounted my root FS from hda7 and then
> tried to
> enlarge it from parted )
>
> So can it resize mounted file systems or not ?
You can't.
Andrew
Re: Resizing an ext3 FS with parted ?,
Andrew Clausen <=