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| -rw-r--r-- | resize/online.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/resize/online.c b/resize/online.c index 1a77839e..966ea1e0 100644 --- a/resize/online.c +++ b/resize/online.c @@ -76,8 +76,17 @@ errcode_t online_resize_fs(ext2_filsys fs, const char *mtpt, * If kernel does not support EXT4_IOC_RESIZE_FS, use the * old online resize. Note that the old approach does not * handle >32 bit file systems + * + * Sigh, if we are running a 32-bit binary on a 64-bit + * kernel (which happens all the time on the MIPS + * architecture in Debian, but can happen on other CPU + * architectures as well) we will get EINVAL returned + * when an ioctl doesn't exist, at least up to Linux + * 3.1. See compat_sys_ioctl() in fs/compat_ioctl.c + * in the kernel sources. This is probably a kernel + * bug, but work around it here. */ - if (errno != ENOTTY) { + if ((errno != ENOTTY) && (errno != EINVAL)) { if (errno == EPERM) com_err(program_name, 0, _("Permission denied to resize filesystem")); |