Geir A. Myrestrand wrote:
> Does xfs_growfs depend on some space left on the file system in order to
> be able to grow it?
>
> I have a colleague who ran into an issue where a file system resize
> failed. The file system is 100% full.
>
> Aside from analyzing what happened in his case, should XFS be able to
> grow a file system that is 100% full?
>
> The device has already been expanded, it is the XFS file system that
> fails to resize. I just wonder if that is by design, or whether it is an
> issue.
>
Off the top of my head, I think it should work ok even if full, although
I could be (and apparently I am) wrong here. How exactly did the growfs
fail?
I actually wasn't able to completely fill my filesystem, got stuck at
20k left. :) but growing that from 50M to 100M worked fine for me.
-Eric
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