Re: Suggestion for Linux 2.3

Mike Jagdis (mike@toaster.roan.co.uk)
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:16:27 GMT

>For a start, maybe it would be easier to write a user space program
>to extend an (unmounted) ext2 filesystem? Add more block groups,
>and change a few values in the superblock. Or is it more difficult
>than that? (I guess so, since it has not been done yet...)

I may be confused here but didn't the e2fsprogs come with (or used
to come with) a test program called expand (or extend) that added a
block group to an existing ext2 fs?

Mik

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