Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.42.8-1
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
I have a system with only ext3 filesystems. When I tried to resize the
root filesystem using resize2fs I got a surprising error message:
wraith:/tmp# resize2fs -p /dev/wraith/root
resize2fs 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013)
Filesystem at /dev/wraith/root is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
old_desc_blocks = 34, new_desc_blocks = 65
resize2fs: Filesystem does not support online resizing
I poked it with strace and discovered:
access("/sys/fs/ext4/features/meta_bg_resize", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
write(2, "resize2fs", 9resize2fs) = 9
write(2, ": ", 2: ) = 2
write(2, "Filesystem does not support onli"..., 43) = 43
Running "modprobe ext4" caused resize2fs to be more willing to run (but it
failed later):
wraith:/tmp# resize2fs -p /dev/wraith/root
resize2fs 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013)
Filesystem at /dev/wraith/root is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
old_desc_blocks = 34, new_desc_blocks = 65
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/wraith/root to 16785408 (1k) blocks.
resize2fs: Inappropriate ioctl for device While trying to add group #1088
If resize2fs requires the use of /sys/fs/ext4/features/meta_bg_resize in
order to resize an ext3 filesystem on-line then I think the need to load
the ext4 module should be documented in its man page.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on:
ii e2fslibs 1.42.8-1
ii libblkid1 2.20.1-5.5
ii libc6 2.17-93
ii libcomerr2 1.42.8-1
ii libss2 1.42.8-1
ii libuuid1 2.20.1-5.5
ii util-linux 2.20.1-5.5
e2fsprogs recommends no packages.
Versions of packages e2fsprogs suggests:
pn e2fsck-static <none>
ii gpart 0.1h-11+b1
ii parted 2.3-16
-- no debconf information
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Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service.
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