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Re: SAN resizing disk, no LVM

To: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: SAN resizing disk, no LVM
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:51:36 -0700
Cc: daves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:47:19AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:

> Resizing any partitition by increasing the end address is easy, as
> long as there is free space after the parttion being grown.  Both
> parted and fdisk can change the end address, then you run
> xfs_growfs.  Resizing by changing the start address is hard, all the
> data has to be moved.

the kernel won't notice partitions increasing in size if *any*
parition on that disk in is use though


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