Seth Mos wrote:
At 11:02 7-6-2001 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
Is there any HOWTO on growing an XFS partition under Linux?
See the mail archive list. There are examples in there.
Is is possible to do this for the / partition?
If there is free space behind it yes, otherwise no.
It needs to be a contigous part of the disk.
lvm makes this easier. There were some issues with resizing multiple
LVM is the answer to this. This is exactly what it's designed for. But,
there "were" issues with extending an xfs more than once. I'm hoping
they are getting resolved (any word on that?). But that limitation is
an XFS issue, not an LVM issue AFAIK.
Ric
PS: Do yourself a favor. Learn LVM, and convert to it. You'll never go
back to partitions again!
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