topic Re: Resize R80 partition in Firewall and Security Management

Resize R80 partition

J_Saun — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 02:02:34 GMT

I am trying to resize one of my paritions because it keeps complaining that /opt is low on space.

I followed the instructions in the link below:

https://www.51sec.org/2014/08/resize-checkpoint-firewalls-diskpartition-space-gaia-and-splat-platform/

Step 4 worked - lvresize -L 11G vg_splat/lv_current

But step 5 gives me the following error:

[Expert@r80_mgr:0]# resize2fs /dev/vg_splat-lv_current
resize2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
open: No such file or directory while opening /dev/vg_splat-lv_current

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Re: Resize R80 partition

Vladimir — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 05:25:48 GMT

Have you tried Managing partition sizes via LVM manager on Gaia OS ?

Re: Resize R80 partition

Kim_Moberg — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:39:52 GMT

Did you tried this?

https://community.checkpoint.com/thread/10253-how-to-add-a-new-disk-and-expand-the-log-file-system

Best regards

Kim

Re: Resize R80 partition

J_Saun — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 19:06:30 GMT

Tired both and had no luck. Ended up building a new R80.20 Manager with a bigger HD. The good thing is I learned how easy it is to backup and restore a Checkpoint Manager. Worked without issue.

Thanks for all the suggestions/help

Re: Resize R80 partition

Jesse_Wittsche — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:46:59 GMT

Check out the following sk131332 How to resize XFS partitions in R80.20

"R80.20 has moved from the ext3 file system to the XFS file system for its lv_log and lv_current partitions. Resize2fs does not work on XFS. As a result, you will not be able to add disk space as per sk114115"

Re: Resize R80 partition

genisis__ — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 18:56:30 GMT

Both these SK's seem to be restricted to CP employee's; can these be made public?

Re: Resize R80 partition

Trevor_Bruss — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 17:18:58 GMT

Is there a problem with getting to that SK article? I keep getting the error

Error encountered processing a template.

I'd really like to read the document as I have a partition I'd like to resize but I don't want to mess it up.

Re: Resize R80 partition

genisis__ — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 08:04:29 GMT

It still not working for me, I can't see any reason why this should not be visible, can CP please explain why this is not accessible?

Re: Resize R80 partition

Norbert_Bohusch — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 09:09:36 GMT

it's "/dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_current"

Re: Resize R80 partition

iuqam — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 01:16:13 GMT

because this commande resize2fs /dev/vg_splat-lv_current is not correct

the correct command is resize2fs /dev/vg_splat/lv_current

Re: Resize R80 partition

James_Liao — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:32:45 GMT

you can use xfs_growfs /dev/vg_splat/lv_current instead of resize2fs /dev/vg_splat/lv_current after R80.3 later

Re: Resize R80 partition

genisis__ — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 21:52:41 GMT

as Checkpoint seem to tease with the SK (but not actually let us have access to it), would it not be simpler to just update the lvm_manager tool so we could carry on using this (or does this just work, not personally tried it)

Re: Resize R80 partition

Ronen_Zel — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 06:56:21 GMT

Hi,

sk95566 is open to every logged in user. I just checked it again and did not experience any issues. If you are logged in with your User Center credentials and still experience the issue, even when trying using an incognito window (to rule out cache issues) , please contact me privately (rzel@checkpoint.com) and we will get to the bottom of it.

Re: Resize R80 partition

genisis__ — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 11:08:17 GMT

sk131332 - is not accessible.

Re: Resize R80 partition

Ronen_Zel — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 11:14:53 GMT

Hi,

sk131332 was deleted on April 2019 since it was wrong and misleading. Did you encounter a reference to it recently? If so can you share where?

Re: Resize R80 partition

Timothy_Hall — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 13:44:39 GMT

Can confirm, used lvm_manager two weeks ago on R80.40 to grow the /var/log partition and it worked fine.

Re: Resize R80 partition

genisis__ — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 18:27:54 GMT

Great, thanks. That explains things.

Re: Resize R80 partition

genisis__ — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 18:30:50 GMT

Timothy - thanks for the confirmation, I assume as this is xfs filesystem this would imply R81.x would also work, and the same consideration applies i.e. you can increase diskspace only.

Re: Resize R80 partition

cejeofobiri — Mon, 16 May 2022 07:05:56 GMT

I know this thread is quite old but I think my input might help someone out there.

Firstly, You got that error because you did not reference the full file path : /dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_log.

So the command should be below.

[Expert@r80_mgr:0]# resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_log

Secondly if that command does not work and comes up with the error:

"resize2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_log
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock."

Use this command instead: xfx_growfs

[Expert@r80_mgr:0]#xfs_growfs /dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_log

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26305376/resize2fs-bad-magic-number-in-super-block-while-trying-to-open

Re: Resize R80 partition

Jefferson_T — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:16:12 GMT

Nice, very goodd!!!!

It worked Here ! Thanks