Re: Resizing an ext3 FS with parted ?

[Andrew Clausen]

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
Pure luck if you don't get major corruption.

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