From: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@inwind.it>
To: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
Cc: helmut@hullen.de, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Resize command syntax wrong?
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:48:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2642474.I5uc41HKUa@venice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111201020730.33980a5e@natsu>
On Thursday, 01 December, 2011 02:07:30 you wrote:
[...]
> Resizing in both 'directions' seems to work very well on single-device BTRFS
> filesystems, and also it's very useful that BTRFS is almost the only modern
> FS (besides ext4) that can be shrinked. But with multi-device filesystems,
> don't you agree it's non-obvious how (or is not even possible) to resize
> the areas that BTRFS occupies on individual devices?
I agree that it is not so an obviously syntax, however it is definitely
possible to shrink/grow a single disk in a multi disk scenario.
The full syntax is the following ([1])
-----------
filesystem resize [<devid>:][+/-]<size>[gkm]|max <path>
Resize a filesystem identified by <path>. The <size> parameter specifies the new
size of the filesystem. If the prefix + or - is present the size is increased or
decreased by the quantity <size>. If no units are specified, the unit of the
<size> parameter defaults to bytes. Optionally, the size parameter may be
suffixed by one of the following the units designators: 'K', 'M', or 'G',
kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes, respectively.
If 'max' is passed, the filesystem will occupy all available space on the
volume(s).
The resize command does not manipulate the size of underlying partition. If
you wish to enlarge/reduce a filesystem, you must make sure you can expand the
partition before enlarging the filesystem and shrink the partition after
reducing the size of the filesystem.
<devid> is the id of the device which was grow or shrink, as show by the
command btrfs filesystem show. If nothing is passed, the device devid=1 is
used.
----------------------
IIRC I sent in the past a patch which added these further info in the man
page, but I think that this patch was lost... I have to resubmit another time
BR
G.Baroncelli
[1] http://btrfs.ipv5.de/index.php?title=Btrfs(command)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-30 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-30 18:47 Resize command syntax wrong? Phillip Susi
2011-11-30 18:59 ` Helmut Hullen
2011-11-30 19:15 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-11-30 19:37 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2011-11-30 19:43 ` Helmut Hullen
2011-11-30 20:07 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-11-30 20:48 ` Goffredo Baroncelli [this message]
2011-11-30 20:55 ` Helmut Hullen
2011-12-01 0:01 ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-01 6:46 ` Helmut Hullen
2011-12-01 15:57 ` Phillip Susi
2011-12-01 16:19 ` Helmut Hullen
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