filesystem shrinks after using xfs_repair

[Eli Morris]

On Jul 26, 2010, at 2:49 AM, Emmanuel Florac wrote:

> Le Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:46:29 -0700
> Eli Morris <ermorris at ucsc.edu> écrivait:
> 
>> Updating the OS takes me a day or two for the whole cluster and all
>> the user programs. If you're pretty sure that will fix the problem,
>> I'll go for it tomorrow. I'd appreciate it very much if you could let
>> me know if Centos 5.4 is recent enough that it will fix the problem.
>> 
> 
> Alternatively simply boot the system from a live CD with a recent
> kernel to do the resize.
> 
>> I will note that I've grown the filesystem several times, and while I
>> recall having to unmount and remount the filesystem each time for it
>> to report its new size [...]
> 
> This definitely should not happen. After using xfs_growfs, the
> filesystem appears immediately bigger.
> 
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Hi Emmanuel,

I think the Live CD is a great suggestion. I was just thinking though. do you know of a Live CD that has XFS utilities on it? From what I've seen, I've had to install XFS utilities after installing the OS, which I don't think one can do with a live CD. I can look, but if you know of one, that would probably save some digging.

thanks,

Eli