auto-maximize a logical partition with ext3

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Umm, last time I checked, resize2fs (which now supports ext4, at least in
Fedora) can resize to use all available space if you don't give it any
parameters. See this: http://www.hermann-uwe.de/taxonomy/term/1867

<http://www.hermann-uwe.de/taxonomy/term/1867>Thanks,
Hetz

2011/4/3 Ira Abramov <Lists-Linux-IL at ira.abramov.org>

> Hello friends, last resort before I go and reinvent the wheel, badly.
>
> I have a system here that creates a dozen images for medias of different
> sizes, installing a few dozen machines every day. I would like to make
> the process more unified - install the same 4G image on all medias (dd)
> and then maximize sda6, the last ext3 partition, and naturally, the
> underlying extended partition sda4.
>
> The only tool that automates resizing like that is parted, and it still
> needs a precise partition length instead of "use all available space",
> and won't resize ext3 if I don't turn off the journaling first (make it
> ext2). I tried deducing the maximum partition size with fdisk -l and
> other sfdisk instead, but each uses different units and I have no idea
> how to convert them all correctly so I'm left with working, non
> overlapping partitions.
>
> I'm prepared to do it the hard way, I just wondered if there's a tool I
> missed or an existing script that already does this.
>
> Thanks.
>
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