[9033] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Growing a linux file system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (der.hans)
Tue Jun 20 11:19:14 2000
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 01:11:36 -0700 (MST)
From: "der.hans" <linux-scsi@LuftHans.com>
To: "Boerner, Brian" <Brian_Boerner@ntc.adaptec.com>
Cc: "'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
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Am 19. Jun, 2000 schwäzte Boerner, Brian so:
> 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've seen a couple of things that would make me think so, but haven't ever
needed to try it. OTOH jfs from IBM is supposed to be in the kernel real
soon now (if not already) and their lvm will be coming in as well. Those
two support growable, but not shrinkable, filesystems in AIX and should in
Linux as well, according to the IBM presentation that opened for my talk
last week :).
I think xfs from SGI has this capability as well. Since both jfs and xfs
are journaled filesystems you might look at razierfs and see if it handles
it.
Another option would be to use something like afs on top of it and pretend
it's all one big happy fs :).
ciao,
der.hans
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