From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: geir.myrestrand@falconstor.com
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Will xfs_growfs succeed on a full file system?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:41:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B63AA1.8010504@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45B6277F.20506@falconstor.com>
Geir A. Myrestrand wrote:
> Does xfs_growfs depend on some space left on the file system in order to
> be able to grow it?
>
> I have a colleague who ran into an issue where a file system resize
> failed. The file system is 100% full.
>
> Aside from analyzing what happened in his case, should XFS be able to
> grow a file system that is 100% full?
>
> The device has already been expanded, it is the XFS file system that
> fails to resize. I just wonder if that is by design, or whether it is an
> issue.
>
Off the top of my head, I think it should work ok even if full, although
I could be (and apparently I am) wrong here. How exactly did the growfs
fail?
I actually wasn't able to completely fill my filesystem, got stuck at
20k left. :) but growing that from 50M to 100M worked fine for me.
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-23 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-23 15:19 Will xfs_growfs succeed on a full file system? Geir A. Myrestrand
2007-01-23 16:41 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2007-01-23 17:18 ` Geir A. Myrestrand
2007-01-24 2:07 ` David Chinner
2007-01-24 2:34 ` Geir A. Myrestrand
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