Re: Anyone use xfs_growfs under Linux?

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:52:03AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:

> AFAIK you cannot change the kernel's view of the partition size
> while the partition is mounted.  Adding the extra disk has to be
> done with the partition (and hence the filesystem) offline.
> xfs_growfs works on mounted filesystems.  My comment mistakenly
> merged the two, quite separate, requirements.

for parition tables that's correct, but if he is using LVM or similar
it should work w/o needing to remount