RHEL4 : Can not extend filesystem with `ext2online`

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

After successfully extending a logical volume, resizing the file system with ext2online fails.

Example of output in verbose mode :

# ext2online -v /dev/mapper/vg01-lvol1
ext2online v1.1.18 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b
[...]
group 5457 inode table has offset 2, not 1027
group 5458 inode table has offset 2, not 1027
group 5459 inode table has offset 2, not 1027
group 5460 inode table has offset 2, not 1027

using 929 reserved group descriptor blocks
found 0 not 96 at 1544[95]

ext2online: unable to resize /dev/mapper/vg01-lvol1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4
  • e2fsprogs-1.35-12.24.el4

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