I need to "move" phisically the xfs root partition to the first block of my hd to ba able to enlarge it and cover all the available space. As now the partition starts after 4GB i can' t engrow it to
Yes. (Or tape, or...) growfs only grows on the end of a filesystem, you can't grow the beginning backwards... -Eric -- Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI,
Could you not use dmapi to do this? Just curious. -- Austin Gonyou Systems Architect, CCNA Coremetrics, Inc. Phone: 512-698-7250 email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Have regard for your name, since it wil
Dmapi is at a totally different level than this, dmapi is about being able to intercept calls on a file and do things like fetch the contents from other storage. There may be a partition editing tool
I see..I was thinking more along the lines of moving a partition from one disk to another. Perhaps LVM or EVMS snapshots would do the trick? -- Austin Gonyou Systems Architect, CCNA Coremetrics, Inc.
It would probably be ridiculously painful to do, but maybe not, so I'll suggest a possible change that might make this possible. Suppose that a clean/new XFS partition were added just before the curr
Ugh ugh ugh! The only problem(s) are: xfs allocation groups are expected to all be the same size. Inode numbers include the allocation group number. Inserting at the beginning would change all inode