Re: 2.4: "access beyond end of device" after ext2 mount

From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 07:42:32 EST


On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:47:01PM +0100, Mario Holbe wrote:

> > If you want to restore the device to full size, use
> > blockdev --setbsz 512.
>
> Does that in any way hurt, if a filesystem is just mounted?

It is a bad idea to change the blocksize of a mounted filesystem.
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