Re: [MLUG] resizing ext3 partitions using gparted

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Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 EMAIL:PROTECTED wrote:
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>>>    e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sdb3
>>>
>>>    Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?
>>>    e2fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
>>>    e2fsck: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sdb3
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if this error is due to the software RAID.  Any ideas?
>>
>> I don't know if it would be or not, but if it is then you should be able
>> to boot with a rescueCD and do the reimaging that way.
>>
>> http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
>>
>> That should take the software raid out of the picture.
>
>
> But would that then mess up the raid for later use?  Maybe the trick is to
> do the exact same resizing of both drives and then the raid can continue
> as before.
>

I would think that as long as you just resized the partitions to the same
size that it would not mess up the software raid, but I cannot say for
sure since I have not dealt with that.

If I were going to do it, then I would make sure that I had my drives good
and backed up. :)

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Scott Mayo - System Administrator
Bloomfield Schools
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