Re: Problem resizing ext2 filesystem on LVM

[Dave Wapstra]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:45:11AM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:01:30PM +0100, Dave Wapstra wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm having some problems resizing an ext2 partition on a LVM Logical 
> > Volume. The filesystem is currently approx. 
> > 170GB, the LV is about 200GB.  Parted seems to resize fine, no error 
> > messages are given.  However, the filesystem  
> > is not resized and the size stays the same.
> 
> How longs does the resize take?  It appears to do real work?

Yes, the cpu goes to 10-25% for a couple of minutes.

> > I've resize the filesystem this way before from ~140GB to ~170GB and that 
> > worked fine.  Using parted 1.4.13 or 
> > 1.4.22 gives the same result.
> 
> Could you try changing something with other userland tools on
> the fs, and seeing if it gets updated?  For example, change
> the reserved blocks percentage with tune2fs -m.
> 
>       # umount blah
>       # dumpe2fs blah > dump.before
>       # tune2fs blah -m some-number
>       # dumpe2fs blah > dump.after
>       # diff -u dump.before dump.after
> 

I'll give it a try and let you know the results.

-Dave