Home RAID question

[Blake Barnett]

On May 11, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Andrew McNabb wrote:

> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:39:53PM -0600, Corey Edwards wrote:
>>
>> Interesting, but still not gonna work (for me).
>>
>>         GNU ext2resize is a package which allows resizing ext2 and  
>> ext3
>>         filesystems (both shrinking and growing). The ext2resize  
>> tool is
>>         for resizing unmounted filesystems, and ext2online is for
>>         growing a mounted filesystem (it needs a kernel patch to  
>> work,
>>         however).
>>
>> Compiling and installing into new kernel is going to take a lot  
>> longer
>> than unmounting. Maybe if it was merged into into the kernel and the
>> standard ext3 tools. But since it hasn't been updated since 2004,  
>> that
>> seems unlikely. I stand by my claim of unpossible.
>>
>
> The kernel patch was merged into 2.6.12, I believe.

Yup.  works like a charm, I used it a couple days ago on my /var  
filesystem.  I'm running 2.6.16.

-Blake