[GLLUG] Dual-Boot Copy?

Marshal Newrock marshal at idealso.com
Wed Oct 31 21:08:46 EDT 2007


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.

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