[9024] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Growing a linux file system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Mielke)
Tue Jun 20 10:33:40 2000
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:54:58 -0400
From: Mark Mielke <mark@mielke.cc>
To: "Boerner, Brian" <Brian_Boerner@ntc.adaptec.com>
Cc: "'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
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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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