Re: [GLLUG] Dual-Boot Copy?

[Benjamin Cathey]

will do once the hdd gets here. ;)

Hopefully early next week.


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From: Karl Schuttler
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To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
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Sent: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:12:05
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Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Dual-Boot Copy?


>->> Benjamin, be sure to let us know what route you took and your level of
>->> success.
>->> 
>->> On 11/1/07, Richard Houser <rick at divinesymphony.net> wrote:
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>->> > Marshal Newrock wrote:
>->> > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:10:54 -0400
>->> > > Richard Houser <rick at divinesymphony.net> wrote:
>->> > >
>->> > >> I'm fairly certain ext2/ext3 don't support online resizing (not
>->> > >> counting the third-party kernel patches that can be applied).  That
>->> > >> was one of the bigger reasons I went with reiserfs on most of my
>->> > >> machines.  When you are dealing with 6+ drives, the flexibility of
>->> > >> online resizing + LVM is a huge factor.
>->> > >
>->> > > I thought so too, but I recently noticed the command resize2fs, which
>->> > > does what you might expect.  I think it is a fairly new addition to the
>->> > > e2fstools, though.
>->> > >
>->> >
>->> > I think it's a new addition as well, but from the manpage:
>->> >
>->> > "The resize2fs program will resize ext2 or ext3 file systems.  It can be
>->> > used  to  enlarge or shrink an unmounted file system located on device.
>->> > If the filesystem is mounted, it can be used to expand the size of  the
>->> > mounted filesystem, assuming the kernel supports on-line resizing.  (As
>->> > of this writing, the Linux  2.6  kernel  supports  on-line  resize  for
>->> > filesystems mounted using ext3 only.)."
>->> >
>->> > So, offline only for ext2 on my system (questionable even then depending
>->> > on which running kernels have the patch present).
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