Re: Anyone use xfs_growfs under Linux?

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

Keith should know better ;-) xfs_growfs runs on a mounted filesystem, not an
unmounted one.

Steve


Justin Piszcz wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Keith Owens wrote:
>
> > 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.
> Cool, will give it a shot tomorrow, thanks.