From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:42:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [66.187.233.31]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l0NGgMqw007076 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:42:23 -0800 Message-ID: <45B63AA1.8010504@sandeen.net> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:41:05 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Will xfs_growfs succeed on a full file system? References: <45B6277F.20506@falconstor.com> In-Reply-To: <45B6277F.20506@falconstor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: geir.myrestrand@falconstor.com Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.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