topic Re: resize2fs issue on Linux Red Hat 7.2 in Operating System - Linux

resize2fs issue on Linux Red Hat 7.2

Yu Ting LIU — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 04:13:29 GMT

Hi,

I am doing hard disk software Raid 1 on Linux Red Hat 7.2 and encounter complain below:

# e2fsck -f /dev/md5
# resize2fs /dev/md5
resizfs 1.23 (15-Aug-2001)
resizfs: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to resize /dev/md5
The filesystem on /dev/md5 is now 513984 block long

Anybody can explain what is happening to /dev/md5?

Thanks in advance!

Regards!
Yu Ting

Re: resize2fs issue on Linux Red Hat 7.2

Robert Binkhorst — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:02:13 GMT

Hi Yu Ting,

I found a reference to your question here:
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2002-August/msg00125.html

and here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/1/2003/01/2/40792

Good luck!

Robert

Re: resize2fs issue on Linux Red Hat 7.2

Yu Ting LIU — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:39:44 GMT

Thanks!

I know what is happenning to my hard disk now.

Regards!
Yu Ting

Re: resize2fs issue on Linux Red Hat 7.2

Geoff Hardin — Thu, 06 May 2004 10:01:00 GMT

Your last response indicates that you figured out what was happening. Can you share it with the rest of us?

We are also trying to create a RAID 1 device and are running into the exact same problem. The hardware is brand new, and all the other metadevices were created without a problem. All the other pages I have seen seem to incidicate that this is a hardware problem, but since this is brand new hardware, I find that difficult to believe.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Geoff

Re: resize2fs issue on Linux Red Hat 7.2

Yu Ting LIU — Fri, 07 May 2004 01:28:46 GMT

Hi,

It's a hardware problem. My hard disk was purchased only 2 months ago.

I just simply made a backup of the data of this partiton /dev/md5. After reformat it (mke2fs -j /dev/md5) then restore the data back.

But if you still have spare space on your hard disk I suggest you can build a new raid1 partition to keep the data if the data is critical to you. Because my data is not so critical and also small size.

Hope it will help you!

Regards!
Yu Ting