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Re: Regarding XFS and LVM

To: Suresh Grandhi <Sureshg@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Regarding XFS and LVM
From: Nathan Straz <nstraz@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 16:55:01 -0500
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On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 05:54:21PM -0400, 'freemyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' wrote:
> Suresh,
> 
> I'm glad you think I'm a xfs expert, but I'm not.  Just a user. 
> 
> I have forwarded your e-mail to the XFS list.  i.e. where the experts live.
> 
>  >>  Hi,
>  >>  lvextend or lvreduce can be used to extend or reduce the size of the LV.
>  >>  When we resize the LV, is there commands to make the file system(XFS) 
>  >>  understand those changes.
> 
>  >>  I read in a document that XLV can be used to dynamically extend the size
>  >>  of
>  >>  the LV 
>  >>  or the filesystem at the same time.
>  >>  Is the tool ported into Linux? or similar tool available in linux?
>  >>  Can we reduce the size of the LV or filesystem with this tool?

Take a look at xfs_growfs.  It will increase the file system size after
you extend an LV.  However, you can't shrink an XFS file system.

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Nate Straz                                              nstraz@xxxxxxx
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