resizing an lvm volume with setup-storage

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Thu Apr 8 16:53:37 CEST 2010


> Michael Tautschnig a écrit :
> >>>In this case, the problem is somewhat unrelated: The partitions don't seem to
> >>>fit on disk in this way. That is, there isn't sufficient space for 512 * 1024 *
> >>>1024 bytes before sda2.
> >>>
> >>>Was that layout created using setup-storage? Probably yes. What I do suspect is
> >>>some rounding issue, and, well this is the culprit: The partition has been
> >>>created such as to end at a cylinder boundary, which is considered for the final
> >>>disk layout, but not for intermediate checks.
> >>>
> >>My mistake, sorry.
> >>
> >>I built the filesystem with setup-storage, using version FAI version
> >>3.3.4 and for sda1 a size of '512', with no unit.
> >>And then ran 3.3.5-experimental2 to resize /usr, with the same size
> >>of '512' for sda1, which seems to give a different result.
> >>
> >>I have done it again using a size of 512MiB, and it works as
> >>expected: the volume is resized, but the filesystem is not.
> >>
> >
> >Huch? Why is that expected behavior? Shouldn't everything be resized? Could you
> >paste the logs?
> 
> http://paste.debian.net/68014/
> 
> I really misunderstood your previous mail, where you said "resize2fs
> will *not* be used on normal partitions".
> I see you're using resize2fs in this case, but it fails.
> 

Err, I should have looked at the resize2fs man page more closely. I somehow had
assumed that 512 byte sectors was the default. Added the necessary "s" as unit
in 3.3.5+experimental3. Could you please retry and report back whether it's
fixed?

Thanks a lot,
Michael

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