Description of problem: When a filesystem fills up on a server running a service we can't take down, it would be nice being able to extend the file system without umounting it. I tried using e2fsadm on a test machine, but it complained that ext2online is missing: hvelvet.uio.no# df -h /dev/datavg/filelog Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/datavg/filelog 14G 815M 13G 7% /usit/hvelvet/filelog hvelvet.uio.no# e2fsadm -L 15g /dev/datavg/filelog e2fsadm -- Sorry: 'ext2online' not found in any of /sbin /usr/sbin /usr/local/sbin /bin /usr/bin e2fsadm -- ERROR: can't online resize e2fsadm -- ERROR: /proc/mounts says /dev/datavg/filelog is mounted on /usit/hvelvet/filelog. Please unmount it to resize. hvelvet.uio.no# I'm unable to find an official package from redhat including ext2online. I found a version at <URL: http://ext2resize.sourceforge.net/ >, but we want to use official and supported tools on these machines. Besides, I read that a kernel patch is needed as well, and we need to stay with the official kernel images from RedHat to make sure we get support from the application vendors. So my problem is the lack of ext2online and patched kernel in RedHat Enterprise Linux. Please include it in version 3 as soon as possible. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): lvm-1.0.3-15 e2fsprogs-1.32-15 kernel-smp-2.4.21-9.EL How reproducible: Every time.
This not a bug, it's a new feature request, and as such is appropriate for the next version of RHEL. We do not plan to back-port this to RHEL-3.