From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Resizing XFS on GPT partition
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:27:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A84AF6C.3010801@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908140148.28810@zmi.at>
Michael Monnerie wrote:
> I've had a XEN VM with a 90GB disk, increased it to 250GB.
> Then I had the problem that I used GPT partitioning, meaning only
> "parted" being usable. parted doesn't support resizing partitions for
> xfs and refuses to do it.
>
> The simple thing is to delete and recreate with bigger size that
> partition. Later mount the partition and run xfs_growfs.
>
> I don't understand why parted doesn't support that, just resizing the
> partition and not refusing it. :-(
File a bug against parted. :)
I agree, parted should just resize the partition as you asked and shut
up about anything else. I'm surprised that it can't - even if the fs is
unmounted?
I have no idea what happened to "do one thing and do it well." :)
-Eric
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2009-08-13 23:48 Resizing XFS on GPT partition Michael Monnerie
2009-08-14 0:27 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2009-08-14 1:09 ` Michael Monnerie
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