Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:49:40 +0200
From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: Eli Morris <ermorris@ucsc.edu>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: filesystem shrinks after using xfs_repair
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Le Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:46:29 -0700
Eli Morris <ermorris@ucsc.edu> =E9crivait:

> Updating the OS takes me a day or two for the whole cluster and all
> the user programs. If you're pretty sure that will fix the problem,
> I'll go for it tomorrow. I'd appreciate it very much if you could let
> me know if Centos 5.4 is recent enough that it will fix the problem.
>=20

Alternatively simply boot the system from a live CD with a recent
kernel to do the resize.

> I will note that I've grown the filesystem several times, and while I
> recall having to unmount and remount the filesystem each time for it
> to report its new size [...]

This definitely should not happen. After using xfs_growfs, the
filesystem appears immediately bigger.

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