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class=840330014-18102006>I asked this earlier in the month, at present you
can't, the resize command will be released in ocfs2-tools
1.2.2.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=840330014-18102006>From sunil's last email about this, the release should
be coming out next month?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=840330014-18102006>Stephen</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> ocfs2-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com
[mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Philippe
Andries<BR><B>Sent:</B> 18 October 2006 14:37<BR><B>To:</B>
'ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com'<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Ocfs2-users] Is there a way to
expand a formated ocfs2 partitionwithout loosi ng the data on
it?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=218401413-18102006>Hello</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=218401413-18102006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=218401413-18102006>I have the feeling
this may not be the right forum for the following question, but I d like to try
it here anyway:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=218401413-18102006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=218401413-18102006>This is the
case:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=218401413-18102006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=218401413-18102006>I had a 3x72GB HDD
RAID5 shared external disk drives (HP MSA500), total</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=218401413-18102006>izing about 145,6 GB of
data.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=218401413-18102006>I needed to increase
the available amount of data, so I added a 4th 72GB HDD and u</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=218401413-18102006>sing HP ACU I expanded my
existing RAID5 Array, I have now about 218,5 GB available.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=218401413-18102006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=218401413-18102006>But this is of
course not reflected in my partition table. I had created 2 partitions on
my drives, both formatted with ocfs2. I also run HP
Mutlipath.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=218401413-18102006>See the status
here under:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=218401413-18102006><BR><FONT face=Courier
color=#0000ff size=2>[root@erasme ~]# fdisk -l</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff size=2>Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 36.4 GB,
36414750720 bytes<BR>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4427 cylinders<BR>Units =
cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff
size=2> Device
Boot
Start
End Blocks Id
System<BR>/dev/cciss/c0d0p1
*
1
13 104391 83
Linux<BR>/dev/cciss/c0d0p2
14 4427
35455455 8e Linux LVM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff size=2>Disk /dev/cciss/c0d1: 218.5 GB,
218513571840 bytes<BR>2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 53348040 cylinders<BR>Units =
cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff
size=2> Device
Boot
Start
End Blocks Id
System<BR>/dev/cciss/c0d1p1
1 488282
1953126 83
Linux<BR>/dev/cciss/c0d1p2
488283 35565344 140308248 83
Linux</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff size=2>Disk /dev/cciss/c1d0: 218.5 GB,
218513571840 bytes<BR>2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 53348040 cylinders<BR>Units =
cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff
size=2> Device
Boot
Start
End Blocks Id
System<BR>/dev/cciss/c1d0p1
1 488282
1953126 83
Linux<BR>/dev/cciss/c1d0p2
488283 35565344 140308248 83
Linux</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff size=2>Disk /dev/md0: 1999 MB, 1999896576
bytes<BR>2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 488256 cylinders<BR>Units = cylinders of 8 *
512 = 4096 bytes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff size=2>Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a
valid partition table</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Courier color=#0000ff>Disk /dev/md1: 143.6 GB,
143675555840 bytes<BR>2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 35077040 cylinders<BR>Units =
cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=218401413-18102006><FONT size=2>My question is
:</FONT></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=218401413-18102006>I would like to know
how to resize my partitions to reflect the changes.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=218401413-18102006>The problem is that
I cannot afford loosing the data already on the ocfs2 partition. (the
database).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=218401413-18102006>Is there a way to
expand a formated ocfs2 partition without loosing the data on
it?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=218401413-18102006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=218401413-18102006>Thanks in advance
for your answers,</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=218401413-18102006></DIV></SPAN></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=218401413-18102006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Verdana>Philippe Andries
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