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Message-ID: <4F9ECC0E.8020201@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:29:50 -0500
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@...top.org>
CC: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Determining if an ext4 fs uses the whole partition
On 4/30/12 12:19 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OLPC has started using ext4 online resizing to grow our filesystems to
> use the whole SD card on first boot - something we never did before.
> Working very nicely, thanks!
>
> I'm trying to simplify/improve the scripts involved in doing this.
>
> How can I programatically check if an ext4 fs already fills its
> partition, or if it has room to grow?
>
>
> The numbers produced by dumpe2fs (e.g. block count) or "df" don't seem
> to exactly line up with the sizes produced by fdisk.
Do you have an example of this?
For starters, use fdisk -u to get 512-byte sector units,
otherwise it's just inscrutable CHS magic.
i.e.:
# fdisk -lu /dev/sda2
Disk /dev/sda2: 526 MB, 526417920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 64 cylinders, total 1028160 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
so 1028160 512-byte sectors.
# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda2 | grep "Block count\|Block size"
dumpe2fs 1.42.2 (27-Mar-2012)
Block count: 514080
Block size: 1024
so 514080 1k blocks, or 1028160 512-byte sectors, so bingo, it's full.
Of course you can't use an odd sector hanging off the end, so you'd
need to do a little rounding down to the nearest fs block size.
Otherwise, it should be straightforward.
Or, FWIW, it's harmless to invoke resize2fs if the fs already fills the
partition; it should just exit with a no-op.
> One easy solution, if possible, would be to find out the number of the
> last sector used by the filesystem. I could then very easily compare
> this to the "end" information found in sysfs for the partition. Then I
> can make the decision on whether to grow or not.
dumpe2fs should certainly be able to tell you. Mounting the fs, and
doing statfs would, as well (f_blocks). There should also be libext2fs
functions you could use if you want to do it in C...
-Eric
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