Hello everybody,
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Ext2/3 have ext2resize/resize2fs, ext2prepare and ext3online for resizing.
But they don't work for ext4.
Here's a sample output for a 64MB loopback-mounted file:
# ext2online -C -f -d tst
ext2online v1.1.19 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b
ext2_open
ext2_bcache_init
ext2_determine_itoffset
setting itoffset to +259
ext2_get_reserved
Found 255 blocks in s_reserved_gdt_blocks
8 old groups, 1 blocks
32 new groups, 1 blocks
ext2_ioctl: EXTEND group to 65537 blocks
using itoffset of 259
new block bitmap is at 0x10001
new inode bitmap is at 0x10002
new inode table is at 0x10104-0x10203
new group has 7934 free blocks
new group has 2048 free inodes (256 blocks)
ext2_ioctl: ADD group 8
ext2online: ext2_ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device
ext2online: unable to resize /tmp/tst
That this doesn't work could be caused by my old ext2online version;
# ext2online -V
ext2online v1.1.19 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b
but what makes me wonder is that the sf project
http://ext2resize.sourceforge.net/download.html still lists 1.19 as current.
Should that work for ext4 too?
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.22-rc5-686 (Debian 2.6.22~rc5-1~experimental.1)
([email protected]) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070601 (prerelease) (Debian
4.1.2-12)) #1 SMP Wed Jun 27 22:21:14 UTC 2007
There's a resize.c in the ext4 directory
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=tree;f=fs/ext4;h=e509c1bf9448c343b7a4666dae4dfed0afe228ad;hb=HEAD
so I'd thought that it should include that functionality.
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you for all answers.
Regards,
Phil