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RE: Growing a linux file system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Boerner, Brian)
Mon Jun 19 21:02:13 2000
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From: "Boerner, Brian" <Brian_Boerner@ntc.adaptec.com>
To: "'Mark Mielke'" <mark@mielke.cc>
Cc: "'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:34:26 -0700
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I found a utility ext2resize, but nothing in the standard distribution to
make this happen. This was also the only reference I found in the HOWTOs for
filesystem extension.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Mielke [mailto:mark@mielke.cc]
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 5:55 PM
> To: Boerner, Brian
> Cc: 'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'
> Subject: Re: Growing a linux file system
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 02:05:30PM -0700, Boerner, Brian wrote:
> > Does anyone know if linux supports growing a filesystem? If
> you've got a
> > scsi disk and are currently only using half of it. Is it
> possible to grow
> > the partition to utilize the whole disk once a filesystem
> has been created
> > on it? I wasn't aware any of the unix flavors supported
> this. Anyone?
>
> I believe that all of HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux support this.
>
> For Linux, ext2 is "growable" I believe.
>
> mark
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