Re: resize question

[K.G.]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:43:51 -0400
"Leven, Chris" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have a Red Hat enterprise 3 server with the following:
> 
> The extra space available has not been added to /dev/sda4 yet.  When I
> attempted it it came back and said that the file systems was active
> (ignore/cancel).  The server is running an Oracle Database and
> associated applications.  Obviously I chose ignore for fear we would
> create some problems.  Was this a good assumption or since I am just
> extending the partition would I be OK  (resize 4 2416.025 138720.000)
> since it should not need to move any data?

You should not try to resize a mounted file system. The process involves
not only sometimes moving data, but also modifications in the file system
metadata structures, which can not be modified concurrently with the kernel
able to access them, because Parted would not be aware of the modifications
made by the kernel and the kernel would not be aware of the modifications
done by Parted.

Cheers,
Guillaume Knispel