Can ext3 filesystem be safely resized while they are online in RHEL5?

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Issue

  • Can ext3 filesystems be safely resized while they are online and mounted on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 systems?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Logical Volume or partition with ext3 filesystem

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