Re: growing a partition

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:40 7-6-2001 -0700, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> 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.

Workaround: after each xfs_growfs run xfs_repair.
repeat.


off topic:
Still need to bite the bullet on using lvm myself.
Oh well next new server on which I can practice this is not far away.
It's either a server or a fat disk array that will be crossing my path so I 
can go practice.

It will be hosting progress databases on a XFS filesystem.
First tests with either Progress 8.3c or 9.1B under linux with XFS are a 
few months away.
If those tests are positive it will be used for the production machine.

It's because the old server is a NCR MP-RAS (yuk!) which is on ia32, has 
2GB file limits, Uses a Veritas filesystem that magically changes owners on 
files, is dog slow, is near out of disk space, is a broken devel 
environment and gives me headache all day long getting openssh on it. I 
think that's about it :-/ But I have just gotten the imense satisfaction 
that is runs OpenSSH, I can sleep now.

The out of disk space situation will be probably be solved by hooking a 
disk aray on one of our internal linux boxes and unsing NFS to use it for 
the static data and leave the databases local.
Although the NFS share will probably outperform the local filesystem with a 
factor 4

These databases vary in size between 300MB and 1.92GB. Which means that it 
will mean that one of our pruduction databases is on the limit of going 
bust. Total size of all databases together is around 5+ GB in size.

Of course I will let the list know what happens when you try to access that 
kind of databases on a linux box with XFS.

Cheers
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.