Re: Resizing an ext3 FS with parted ?

[David Balazic]

Andrew Clausen wrote:
> 
> 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

Yes, it looks like the code in parted for checking if the FS is mounted is
broken.

> Pure luck if you don't get major corruption.

I didn't notice any.
Until the HD suffered a head crash , that is.

This also means I can't do any further experiments with parted.
 
> 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


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