Re: Anyone use xfs_growfs under Linux?

[Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx>]

Justin Piszcz (on Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:04:09 -0400 (EDT)) wrote:
>I have a 6 disk RAID5, I just added another disk, I plan to use the kernel 
>feature in 2.6.17 to "hot-add" an additional disk to the array (not a 
>spare), then I plan to use xfs_growfs to grow the filesystem to the 
>maximum size it can support.  Has anyone used this or done this in Linux?

Several times.  Not a problem, as long as the filesystem is not mounted
at the time.