[Cialug] Resize ext3

[Matt Stanton]

Mind browsing your history and letting me know where that script was?  I 
just got in a trio of 146GB U320 drives to replace the 36GB drives in my 
server.  Figured I'd Clonezilla the current RAID 5 array, upload it 
somewhere, do a clean install of the 146GB drives in RAID 5, then pull 
the image down and put it on the new array.  I think Clonezilla will let 
me resize the filesystem as it's writing it to the new array, but just 
in case, I might need to know how to run the resize.

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> I've done this before (ext3 > ext2, resize, turn ext3 back on) and it works.  I did a transfer from one disk to another in there too.
>
> Followed a helpful guide on the Interwebs.
>
> -Nate
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
>> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of kristau
>> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 11:15 AM
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Resize ext3
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Tim Wilson 
>> <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> But I'm seeing people turning off journaling, then do the 
>>>       
>> resize, then 
>>     
>>> turning journaling back on.
>>>       
>> This is the way I've always seen it recommended. EXT2 and 
>> EXT3 are 100% the same except for the journal. I suspect you 
>> risk breaking the journal if you don't turn it off before 
>> re-sizing. I'm also guessing that the journal would just 
>> re-build if you forgot to turn it off.
>>
>> Goes without saying (but I'll say it anyway), make sure you 
>> have a full backup of that filesystem prior to re-sizing.
>>
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