From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n7E0R3dp060409 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:27:13 -0500 Received: from mail.sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 4A8531B690B0 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:27:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id oU4UeCa5dY1PpjfU for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:27:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A84AF6C.3010801@sandeen.net> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:27:24 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Resizing XFS on GPT partition References: <200908140148.28810@zmi.at> In-Reply-To: <200908140148.28810@zmi.at> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Michael Monnerie Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com 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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs