Thanks for the update. I appreciate it. You know if it's one thing I like about the Linux community, it's the commradery. Sure we had our windows system engineer circles, but nothing even close to what I have experienced with the Linux groups. Thanks, Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 7:36 PM Subject: [newbie] Test report ext2resize and ext2online > These are the basic tools for dealing with single partitions I > tested them very basically to see what was available > > The kernel would need a recompilation to activate ext2online (which > expands mounted partitions), but ext2 resize works, even on a > partition containing a bootable system. /spare on my main system > mount is my test area for corporate server, and I tried a boot in the > middle after sizing down. > > Transcript of testing session follows: > > ext2online fails because a flag has to be enabled to allow it when > the kernel is compiled. ext2resize works... even a little too well. > The first resize left me unbootable because I had no spare blocks for > the system to use. The second made me bootable again. > > Civileme > > [tester@civileme tester]$ df > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdb9 6.3G 2.7G 3.3G 45% / > /dev/hdb8 1.6G 398M 1.1G 26% /calm > /dev/hda7 2.2G 2.1G 23M 99% /home > /dev/hda6 2.9G 589M 2.2G 21% /jose > /dev/hdb7 2.9G 1.3G 1.4G 48% /oldhome > /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /oldroot > /dev/hda8 5.4G 3.1G 2.0G 61% /spare > /dev/hdb6 3.0G 57M 2.8G 2% /7.1b > /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /7.2b > [tester@civileme tester]$ > > [root@civileme tester]# umount /dev/hda8 > [root@civileme tester]# e2fsck /dev/hda8 > e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > /dev/hda8: clean, 173920/715264 files, 832492/1427769 blocks > [root@civileme tester]# ext2resize /dev/hda8 3400m > ext2resize v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b > [root@civileme tester]# df > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdb9 6.3G 2.7G 3.3G 45% / > /dev/hdb8 1.6G 398M 1.1G 26% /calm > /dev/hda7 2.2G 2.1G 22M 99% /home > /dev/hda6 2.9G 589M 2.2G 21% /jose > /dev/hdb7 2.9G 1.3G 1.4G 48% /oldhome > /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /oldroot > /dev/hdb6 3.0G 57M 2.8G 2% /7.1b > /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /7.2b > [root@civileme tester]# mount /dev/hda8 > [root@civileme tester]# df > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdb9 6.3G 2.7G 3.3G 45% / > /dev/hdb8 1.6G 398M 1.1G 26% /calm > /dev/hda7 2.2G 2.1G 22M 99% /home > /dev/hda6 2.9G 589M 2.2G 21% /jose > /dev/hdb7 2.9G 1.3G 1.4G 48% /oldhome > /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /oldroot > /dev/hdb6 3.0G 57M 2.8G 2% /7.1b > /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /7.2b > /dev/hda8 3.3G 3.1G 12M 100% /spare > [root@civileme tester]# ext2online /spare 5g > ext2online v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b > > ext2online: resizing to 1310720 blocks > ext2online: resize failed while in kernel > ext2online: Invalid argument > [root@civileme tester]# man ext2online > Formatting page, please wait... > [root@civileme tester]# ext2online /spare 5G > ext2online v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b > > ext2online: resizing to 1310720 blocks > ext2online: resize failed while in kernel > ext2online: Invalid argument > [root@civileme tester]# e > bash: e: command not found > [root@civileme tester]# umount /spare > [root@civileme tester]# ext2resize /dev/hda8 5g > ext2resize v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b > [root@civileme tester]# mount /dev/hda8 > [root@civileme tester]# df > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdb9 6.3G 2.7G 3.3G 45% / > /dev/hdb8 1.6G 398M 1.1G 26% /calm > /dev/hda7 2.2G 2.1G 22M 99% /home > /dev/hda6 2.9G 589M 2.2G 21% /jose > /dev/hdb7 2.9G 1.3G 1.4G 48% /oldhome > /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /oldroot > /dev/hdb6 3.0G 57M 2.8G 2% /7.1b > /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /7.2b > /dev/hda8 4.9G 3.1G 1.6G 66% /spare > [root@civileme tester]# ext2online /spare 5400M > ext2online v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b > > ext2online: resizing to 1382400 blocks > ext2online: resize failed while in kernel > ext2online: Invalid argument > [root@civileme tester]# ext2online /spare 5300M > ext2online v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b > > ext2online: resizing to 1356800 blocks > ext2online: resize failed while in kernel > ext2online: Invalid argument >
