Re: xfs_growfs

[Ric Tibbetts <ric@pipcws.ca.boeing.com>]

Daniel Moore wrote:

> ctooley@amoa.org writes:
>  => 
>  => 
>  => I'm looking for a good howto on the situations in which growfs works.  I ha
>  => ve a
>  => partition that is too small, there is free space after it, and I want XFS t
>  => o
>  => consume the rest of that space.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> This is exactly what xfs_growfs does. Read the man page for extra details
> and don't forget to backup first.


True, but only IF you're running LVM. You need to "grow" the partition, 
and that is not possible. You need LVM to manage this kind of thing AFAIK.

Ric