I'm performing an online resize of my / filesystem

[Gilbo]

... for the 1st time ever. Wish me luck!

[root@Wittgenstein ~]# resize2fs -p /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
resize2fs 1.40.4 (31-Dec-2007)
Filesystem at /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 is mounted on /; online resizing required
old desc_blocks = 88, new_desc_blocks = 117
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 to 487817216 (4k) blocks.

Intense... (Clearly, I am a geek. I'm excited and nervous at the same time...)

 

[timwhit]

What filesystem?

I didn't know that was possible.

 

[Gilbo]

I'm doing it with ext3 with resize2fs. ReiserFS can do it too, and so can XFS apparently. In all three cases you can only grow the filesystem if it's mounted - shrinking it might cause trouble after all!

 

[Howell]

You can grow NTFS partitions with a command-line tool from MS.

 

[Bozo]

Why can't you use something like Partition Magic?

Bozo :joker:

 

[Gilbo]

P.S. It all worked out quite well.

Bozo, I don't know if partition magic supports Ext3 & LVM. If it does it probably would have worked.