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From: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Incorrect Free Space / xfs_growfs on RAID5 Volume ?
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:10:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905281110.22697@zmi.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59D949A6-71F6-4C4C-B5F9-B5B22B189771@fiton.is>


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On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009 Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:
> Is there a simple way for me to check if my kernel has this option  
> compiled in ?

gzip -cd /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_LBD
if your kernel provides /proc/config.gz

> And the FINAL question.... Is there any way for me to alter the raid
>   volume, partitions to GPT or just format the /dev/sdb without
> loosing any data ?
> Maby it's just not possible without backup up data, and restore'ing ?

I googled this once, and found the anser "no". If you find a solution, 
please post it, I'd be very interested in it.

mfg zmi
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-28  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-26  9:51 Incorrect Free Space / xfs_growfs on RAID5 Volume ? Svavar Örn Eysteinsson
     [not found] ` <4A1BE48F.9020107@dermichi.com>
2009-05-27  9:26   ` Svavar Örn Eysteinsson
2009-05-27 16:29     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-28  9:10     ` Michael Monnerie [this message]
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2009-05-26 16:58 Richard Ems

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