Extending swap + / fs ?

[Cody_Sparks at Dell.com]

resize2fs is an older utility, people are typically more comfortable with it (or don't know about alternatives).

I've not had any issues using ext2online, but as always (with either tool), I'd recommend performing a full backup before resizing the partition.  There's always the chance of losing data.

--Cody 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Florent Gilain
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:40 AM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: RE: Extending swap + / fs ?
> 
>  Thanks all,
> 
> I'm just a little lost for now, it seems that everybody is 
> not ok concerning the tool to use ? Any 
> security/danger/easyness reason ?
> 
> Florent
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Greg Dickie [mailto:greg at max-t.com] Envoyé : mercredi 25 
> octobre 2006 18:36 À : Florent Gilain Cc : 
> linux-poweredge at dell.com Objet : RE: Extending swap + / fs ?
> 
> 
> You can use an RHEL CD #1 and at the syslinux prompt type 
> "linux rescue".
> When it asks you if you want to mount your linux partitions 
> tell it to skip.
> You want it unmounted to be able to resize it. I'm just not 
> sure that the
> resize2fs binary is available in rescue mode.
> 
> Greg
> 
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:32 +0200, Florent Gilain wrote:
> >  By "rescue system", do you mean booting on original RHEL4 bootable 
> > CDROM or something else ?
> > 
> > I never did it...any details on howto do it more precisly ?
> > 
> > Thanks a lot
> > 
> > Florent
> > 
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> > [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] De la part de 
> Tino Schwarze 
> > Envoyé : mercredi 25 octobre 2006 18:21 À : 
> linux-poweredge at dell.com 
> > Objet : Re: Extending swap + / fs ?
> > 
> > Hi Florent,
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 06:09:44PM +0200, Florent Gilain wrote:
> > >  I found an excellent document on red hat docs concerning 
> swap (it 
> > > worked)
> > :
> > > 
> > > 
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin
> > > -g
> > > uide/s
> > > 1-swap-adding.html
> > > 
> > > I still have to make my / fs bigger..
> > 
> > You'll need to boot some kind of rescue system to do that 
> since ext3 
> > cannot be resized online without a kernel patch AFAIK. You 
> may resize 
> > the logical volume carrying / with lvextend, then you 
> reboot into the 
> > rescue system and use resize2fs to actually expand the file system.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > Tino.
> > 
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